HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-01-08, Page 14EXPPSIT9,R, 4ANUARY 8, 1981
-The Gallery/Stratford
T1STS
The GALLEpY/STRATFORD is again holding its Annual Perth-Hurop Open
Exhibition. This show, open to all visual artists in the counties of Perth and Huron,
wilt be held befween February 7th and March 1st, 1981.
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Artistiareinvited to siibrhit one Or two• worki each". Works are to be delivered to the
,oallOy/Stratfordon Saturday, January 31st, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday,
February. 1st, ,1:00- p.m: to 5!00 p.m.
Please label .eaCh piece separately and clearly.
The 9pening of the exhibition will be on Friday, February 6th, 8:00 p.m: id 10:00
p.m: A ,critique of the shOw by Paul Bennett, Gallery Director,, will be-held on
Sunday afternoon,' February 15th at 2:30 p.m. Please come and bring friends for ,
bath Ocoasiens.
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For. firdift Infornauttin and entry forme,
Ohtani:
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The Gallery/Stratford.
154 Reese Street
*Werth °etude-NSA 4S9
(Telipheste 271,5271/
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FAMILY PARADISE'
SNOWMOBILE CLUB
• ProSbective, new and exiating members
are sincerely' welcome to our
OPENING MEETING:
Monday, January' 12
at 7 pan:
1.981 welcomed at Manor
- •
. Welco to 1981. and
the New Year has entered
very w gusto weather - wise.,
What a beautiful sight-to see
.,the, trees laden with snow.
Visiting 'syith'..Mr. Arthur
Nicholson were Jack Nichol-
son, Ron and Tote of rani-
bridge.
Miss Ruthr Cluff visited
,with Frank Case.
'Birthday Greetings- to
Miss Evelyn .Cardno who
celebrated her birthday on
Saturday: ,
Wheelchair bowling was
held on Monday afternoon
with the ladies' team again
winning olter the men: Miss
Wilma „Bull had high score
for the ladies with-135 while
Cecil" Rhoades was high for
'the meO.•
Chureb services were can-
celled dif Friday and Sattir-
-day . due to the inclement
weather .
The euchre club will hold
their first' euchre on Tuesday -
afternoon at 2 p.m. and.
volunttspers-are-welconter7 —
The Resident Council will
hold their meeting on Wed- ,
nesday and election of
officers take place.
We are sorry. to report
- Miss Doris Willis is presently
,in Stratford Hospital having
Undergone surgery.,
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140' McKelitie.WILli Obviously a reMarkable Hide girl -
a foresight well beyond. her 13: Mrs. WhelPahe
&alleged herself ha-keep a diary forah, entire year, And*
heiself 01004010W semehated4astor oil every
'What's happening Ida wee* column,' space donated by The
Huron Expositor`. To list yolir avant, call the Recceaffan 9ffica at
••.
sneiiding-money trout selliog et trading their beautiful
sweet grass baskets to farmers' wives.
FAR,AWAPTHOUGHTS
'I would love to be able to talk the Indian language, and
so'have speech, with the squaws. 'rutty, nusthave far-away
„...thettgiaLS-ki,hting,„,that.A4•411.1bOir..CYCA-nniglitilMtl-
wonder if they are thinking •back..through the years lo those
good days, now lost in the long ago, when all this beautiful
" land was theirs, and they were •monarchs whergicer they
walked or are. they thinking forward to the time when they
will be free again, to roam in the waythey,so !ay.'s& through
happy finntingrp..roands. whose iands.are so wideandftee
that never Will they be crowded .or forced to live in the
white man's Way. :though their feelings still. are Indian."
".1 eitpect they 'do not lave ;houses,: but Would, tether
sleep under kv.,ticle:r starry sky, with theflvewinds blpwing
across their .dreams, or ,perhaps,With just the tree tops:fer
-roofs 'and all the,fdrest for teems."' .•
If ',Mary cx41,4 See0Ite', reserve now,. s.krrounded -
SarniesChendeal She'd be startled at what little
• land the ChiPpewas have left. lint they gave gaknektanew.
pride In rtagc(f."*. 7old,Certrainly agree
is firth hearth
:
Mary's Observations Mr IlIesandliabjtS in .her community-
ard as entertaining to read as anything penned by the most
imaginative, novelist . As 'she's recording be dreditations
for peSterity, she concludes thek's one ,Custem she'd
..ehange, should she suddenly fall heir te-'a considerable
fortune:, and that's the matter of country students' having
to board in the city (Sarnia) to attend school.
BOARDING IN TOWN
"1 thought itwoeld be a good plan to have a- real good
high school in the ountry, andjef the town boys and girls
who are poor in money. come out and board at the farms,
instead of the i'ather way around."
"that would keep the country:young' people at home
until they were pretty well set in their ways and not so apt
to' get to sinning. and 'there'd be enough of them left,
„they'd bb able to carry the town young people along in the
best country habits. instead of theinseiyes getting' into the
worst town ways. ag they are apt to do'hy having.to go.to
!town so young, and having. M act smart -so as not to be
called Hayseed." •
Whathappened'to Mary McKenzie, or Christina Wittig;
as,she really was? Well, at the end of the year, sadly she
stopped keeping' her diary.':She attended Normal and after
teaching in Ontario, moved to Saskatehewan 'to help an
older brother homestead,. There she met-find married
.Frank-Plumb, they moved back to Lartibtoft County and in
.1980,,mie of her three , children decided it was time to share
his mother's diarf:iong a family.treastme, with others who
, had a love for the past.
,
well-attended
d
BY JACK EISLER
-PUBLIC RELATIONS
During the holiday
'season just past' it was like
old home week arthe Legion,
as many visitor's from out of
town attended dance held
on Boxing night and on New
• Year Eve.
The Christmas dance.
although not, as well attended
it should , have been., 'saw
g ests from California,
iFlo 'de, Woodstock, and
many. re towns -in between
••^1 ;,Secord,_,MOIrtehdaughter J
Maxhie and<rvOnlie Powell
and. friend `Harry from
California attended and
enjoyed dancing once again,
tp our old friendjan
- and his Orchestra.
The New Year's Eve party.
alsd 'attracted many guests
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_ Telecommunication% Commliskall '
Conseil, de to tothoditfintoo et an/
atecooliminicattoni'airattionton
The CRTC will-hold- Its
public t arlirat the 0)11-
_1e:ewe Centre, Phase ,4,
140 Promenade Port-
age, ma; Que.' com-•
wench* on 13 Jan. 1981
at 9:30 a.m. lestead0 12
Jan,. 1981 as previously
IU11101111Ced. ?WOW
'.re that the' deadline for \re-
celpt of haterviiiiikids
remains ;the same.
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• Cana&
Your
Antiques
Discover their valise
Van Eginond
HOtise
527.0413 • Thurs. Jan. 15
740 - 011(tp.M.
Peel Bennett will-aptak
iliont china, glassware,
craft* ind fortalture.
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day the missed writing down her adventures" Mary
400043gWARIPOrtantP4r1.4.,herAttatTitliScAbould..be.W...
describe customs her ancestors might• be interested in.
ThinnehnleneemintrY llasthincl Provi4e part ,of the:411103es
t- both far *se who remember sheep•dipping and
bee parties and Pik on the 24th, and for VAMP;
• generations who have never eaVerienced the More
IteighigtorlY =UMW IblitOnce flotipshed,
One en-0911i diary wants her ancestors to know about
the bee tree Intrty,1-1erWorry isdlitt "the farmers may he
too strict by the time my descendants are old enough to go.
to 0,34, to let Onekof their trees be cut:down as it has to:be it.
heetreepartiea.uranaybe all the-hollew trees will be used
tip foe wood by that time." •
LOST LAMBS A
"As I write in my diary I can hear lambs and sheep
gather on. the corner with some frienda 'and yell bleating from every direction, It is a most lonesome and'
"Bee-treel" That Was the sign for anyone who beard the - sorrowful sound, the sound of a sheep that cannot find its
call to gather for a party, bringing along the necessary ' lamb. or a lamb that has lost its mother."
utensils - a lantern, and an. old tin pan. ' Then Mary notes, when the mothers 'locate their
. Then it was , off to the woods. At Mary describes it, offspring, the bleats turn to a comforting sound. "1- will be
"The young, men took •turns at sawing dOwn the tree. One awake hours tonighti suppose, listening for the sorrowful
of the old Men botched it first and said where it would bleats to be changed into bleats of rejoicing."
likelY fall" , . Another popular custom in Mary's community was the
BEE-TREE PARTIES • May 24th picniet, whetreveryone packed, a hinch'ba sket
. '.'It seemed pity to cut it down and kill the bees to give and' gathered at tvleffatt's Woodg. Not only was,the picnic
us humans an hour or'two. of enjoynient. But the bee trees a special treat, but the ,c-ommunity's baseball team .
are always hollow trees and going down the hill of :their challenged the Indians from the nearby reserve to an
life. so I suppose it they have any feelings about it they exciting game.
would rather fall on the side of a hill in their beauty,. rather The Indians in Mary's days were regarded as even more
than wait till they got to the bottom and were unsightly to, mysterious creatures ;than they were when I was young
see. ' • and lived next deor M, the same reserve:
Oncethe tree was clown, the partygoers risked the ire of At the nun-of-the-century, they • still spoke the
the bees, naturally feeling slightly; unsettled when their
' The best.titing abeittbeeiee parties,, in Mary's opinien,
44404 theWhele family is invited,' not just.the three eldest
children as with other community social events,
You can wear. any clothes,' you want to th;''eVentA and
there4414;11113:08...arotItld'.006reband,t0 to Out Ihetel.
lots of baking and Other.i.joedles avallablelor guests.
"As for the one who •is to give the party, there fs no s"
respecter' f persons about that. It might be a girl like me,
out in the woods gathering buttercups or it might be a
young man mending a fence, or an old man strolling out in
the summer "to sit in the shade..."
All that's really needed for a party is for someone to
hear bees buz;ingin a woodlot, and,discover which hole in -
"which tree they're flying'in and out of.
. Then in the fall, some night when there's "a full moon,
the neighbourhood custom was for the tree spotter to
Serendipity
by Alice Oibb
-thattLeatne.e40/18405YILAr itmlattAFX-M0 04,'
"FirSt one peraon, and,then
1
filer would go flying into
the shadows.. slappingthernse .es On the head or trying to
save their faces or ears. I-got a sting ,myself on the shin.
. but it didn't hurt much."'
But once, the bees had been stunned by the smoke, the
neighboniti gathered around by the light, of the, lanterns..
-and ate, the fresh twee-Y.
• . "I think it Was a better WO than a Party that'sheid in a
house ' where only the. invited ones eaa„gu, and where yiou
have 't to have .company manners- and, wear toinpanY
clothes." , •
While bee-tree-parties were a fait tradition in Mary:s
area,. ,there was another spring custom, that was. once
- pra.ctisediti almost any farm eeMreunity-sheep dipping.
The neig.hbourseach brought sheep up front..the field, and
drove them down the 'road to one of the Wider spets•in the
creek,..-'The flutters then droveIlieir,tiveslueviuto a large
three-eorrittred..pen ,rnatia'ot sailS" that had been buiiefer
the putpOse, with,one coinekopening into`the creek.
"Theo sheep by 'sheep. the men took them all into the
creek and washed them, and then turned them loose to run
on the road a few dayi to dry. Then they wilt be sheared. -
Herding the sheep„ who. didn't always co-operate. into
ants:pot was tricky enOugh, but getting .sheep.and lambs
track' together after -the forced, washing...was another
challenge.
Chippewa language, now a lost 'art for most, and 'earned •
ew_,Year. Levee at Legi
from out of town ineludi
mothers, father's, brother,
and sisters of many.. of the
memhers, which made:, for
ntany thefeeling of one big
hotiSe party. Special thanks ,
to Jack Muir, our entertain-
ment tepairinan and 'his
ordinating • • these two
memorable events.
-On New Years day, the
branch held their annual
Levee and it was-well attend-
ed by citizens.from Seaforth
and sur.wding districts.
This Saturday. a bus toad of
,Legion members from the
Listowel branch will-pay us a
visit for about 2 hours. They
• will be arriving Actin 2 p.m.
If, you have, some 'free time,
- committee for co. Boyfield cottage destroyed
A cottage Owned by Mr.
and Mrs:James' Barth, on the
south side of HoWard Street
in Bayfield, wa*destroyed by
fire recently,/ The Bayfield
fire department answered
the 3:15 a.nt. alarm, but
:were unable to save the
structure.., which was en-
gulfed in flames.
The Berths. 'Kitchener re.
sidents, discovered the , fire
drop in and join your ..fellow
Legion members in an hour
or-se- of- comradeship
Comrade'Gord Scott has '
Set aside Wednesday. Jan.
14 for a eight 'of stag
cribbage. It will depend on
when' 'they retitrned home.,
from a .neighbour's house,
and when the',),', opened the
' door of the cottage, it
exploded...in flames.
The one-storcy fraweeot-
iage. believed to have• been
built at around the turn of the •
century', was burned to the •
groundin 1Css than an hour.
hi;w many show, tip as to
whether or not, play will
'continue every second week.
tier your chance for all
you crib players tp show your
stuff. Play starts at 8 'p.m.
-with lunettica011ow.
. __Firemen Sprayed down the
nearby ' 'Scott 'residence 0
prevent flames' front spread-
Two family pets were. lost o
lit the Lire. The cottage was
insured and cause of the tire
is still iinknovsn.
An. Expositor Classifiedi
will pay you diVidends. Wave
you/tied one? Dial 527-0240.
COMING. EVENTS
'Jan. 8 Executive Meeting
Jan. 10 Visitation of Listowel
Meinbers
Jan.. 14 Stag Crib -
r:
DATE EVEtiT
ThurS. Jan., 8. M,ens Broorriliale.
,. .._ FziJant,9,,,,RprOtaniey vs Cente-
. naires
Sat. Jan.10 ' ' Story ;Hour
Sat-Jan. 10 Public Skating
Sat Jan. 1GSUrtzvilie vs Jr. fling-
•
'STres. .jan. Jan.111.3' :C* lint1' -vs B'''tilaeeinttitee;
Sat, Jan. 10kurtzvtile vs Sr.. l'iing.-
-,
Sub. Jan. 11 MIlverton va NoviCe
Sun. Jan; 11 Htiron Park ys AtOrha
SW:Jan./1 Mitchell vs Peewees
Tires. Jan. 13 Clinton vs Midgeti
Wed- Jan. 1..4 . Mon-1,841. tots
Wed. Jan. 1'4 Womens Brillile?'
Thurs. Jan. 15 ,"Your Antiques"
Thurs. Jan. 15 Mens Broomball
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