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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-03-26, Page 11Hous . H. Seaforth 1HL DANCE Seaforth Community 'Centre aturday, March 28 9 - 1 Disc Jockey Music $2.00 per piiion COURSE COMPLETE-,-Five area A farmers cotppleted a foit'r • week dairy management program • last week spbrisored by Ralston Purina. With their certificates, in the back row, • Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate Schad' Board KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION ST. JAMES SCHOOL Sister Theresa Mader, Principal Chalk Street, Seaforth, Ontario 627-0321. THURSDAY, 14TH MAY,/81 1p.m.-5p.m. Kindergarten children need to be6-years of age on or before 31st December, 1981 Please bring proof of age 4' (Birth Certificate or Baptismal Certificate) Public Information Seminar "ALCOHOL vs - MARIJUANA" Monday, March -39, • NorthSide United-Church, Seaforth Film and a Panel Discussion Presented .by the Council for Action on • • Alcohol-and other Drugs This is for youth, Grade 6. and up, their parents and other interested people. - Are you unemployed? Age 16 to 24? _Can't get a job because You lack experience? The Ontario Career Action Program (OCAP) can prbvide you with on-the-job training for up to 16 weeks, during which you receive $100/week. Please send me more information and an OCAPapplicationlorm... NAME: ADDRESS: TOWN: POSTAL CODE:.. . Mail to: OCAP, Conestoga College, '421 King St. N., Waterloo N2J 2Z5 or call (619) 885-0300 Ext. 47/48 between 8:30 a.m. & 5 p.m. tWiciotatottoottart St. Columban Minor Soccer Registration Saturday, April 110 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. St. Columban Separate-Schad . BOYS AND GIRLS ALL AGES Required: Registration Fee $8.00.. ' Proof of age o 4'4 2 for 1 SPECIAL ' Have You Tried it? Wednesday, April rst Breaded Pork Cutlet with mashed, potatoes, vegetable & roll, including one trip to the salad bar Pay 5.99 for one get the other one free /i RESERVATIONS AVAILABLE Specials served from 12 noon-10 p.m. In the Hideaway Dining Lounge ucinsed under L.L.11.0, HESSEN HAUS Main St., Seaforth 21-1826 a , 1V HURON TAVERN Highway 8 Dublin 34512820 Appearing Thursday to Saturday. Match 2titir to 28.111, CHEVY DIRT Daily. Smorgasbords, From 12:00 to 2 P.M. . $2.50 EXOTIC DANCER MONDAY TO SATURDAY 44" I I THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MARCH 26, .4.1141,1 -----Wbor:hvo,41.72.4tixge lost in the haze Of time. Someone gave .me aTeket31iary.7 a-sinall. •black beak that fit in4 purse or pocket, and allotted exactly four lines for each day of the year{ The diary was likely intended more as an. .aPPOititment calendar hut decided to take up the challenge apdrecord some of the tuomentpus-events in life that fortunately, at 12. seem tn .0e.cor daily. §(!, taking: -.00% recOrd earilt-stOiFib information lirent$O. Vsod #111••• bPX W4s - be inA4,: I think" and S.Were'at''C 0.1...T." l joined the breed kilt?ts'?i.a td .reeord,iteeping lastediegs-than .4 .010t0.041 1itae.0!tt on and more tift0n.. t:V01:400'1.4 4A4TYLVver .6,140; And'in recent:).uarg,40arite10' ..;-#P.Pr0gi4ItO:. 100 . 0;00 men 414''.-W.tIniCO ;On:fah:00Y record eVents..; the .weather; : the traditions •andevon. townte down fitithfully both the good and.had events that Shape their lives. Charles Ritchie. one of Canada's most celekratecidiarists, and former ambassanorito the United States and Great Britain, was a compulsivejournal writer. hy? Because. as he wrote when he was only 18. "1 do not want my life to slip thrdugh my fingers like sand." Fortunately ChirleS . RiTelic's diaries were eventually published, and everyone can enjoy his travels, his insights on the world leaders he encountered. and the picture of life in the postwar 'period. Another very faithful journal-keeper was the minister of, London's first, Presbyterian Church, and a guiding spirit in spreading the Scottish faith in the Upper Canadian backwoods. Rev. William Proudfoot. who came to Canada in 1832. was conscious from the start that he wastiving in a very unique time and place where men were carving'their COMMERCIAL HOTEL THIS WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday to Saturday and Saturday Matinee 4.6 Rose and Al Berle with• the Blue Chips NEXT WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday to Saturday and Saturday Matinee 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. County Fair FINE FOOD FINE ENTEHT kINMENT Queen's Hotel Seoforth welcomes SENIOR CITIZENS 1/0/ed. April ist LUNCHEON 'SPECIALS , '2.50 includes coffee-8-desserts DAILY LUNCHEON SPECIALS .immioloir : ••••., alp' i eien , „.„ ,.....„ . . -. L. Ohleffiii. 1.-o enittei • 77--- ,., • in Area Churches - - First RP' ESBYTERIAN Church Minister:Rev. . . 59 Goderich St. W., Seaforth - . T. A. A . Duke Oraiinist: Mrs. D. Carter . . SUNDAY MARCH 29 f II:15 Worship Service, Sunday School & Nursery . Sermon "The Power PI the Cross' ' . , I • ST. THOMAS Anglican Church . The Rev. limes R. Broadfoot D.A., M.Div. Seaforth SUNDAY, MARCH 29 4th Sunday in Lent II:30 wan. Morning prayer and sermon . , Mr: Harry Dykstra of Geder,iCh e ill take charge "••' of the service. Wednesday. April I. 10 a.m.. mid week service of holy communion. , ._ .. . ....,... NORTHSIEN United Church ---- • 54-GodericIrSeWest,-Seaforth- - -- . - . - - MARCH 29 • Fourth Sundgy in Lent I I a.m. Cnurch Service Resources I-or Living Church School and Nursery at the saute time. Rev. J.G. Vanslyke, Minister Margaret Whitmore : Audrey, McLiwain Organist - Music Director Jr. Choir Leader Ares congregations are invited. to take advantage of the church directory to announce their ehurCh services each week. Church directory announcements are available for a minimum of 26 consecutive weeks in units of two column inches at $2.25 per unit. Changes in copy may bellied° each week but must be received . . before noon on Tuesday. ... , .. 4 4. their inogvinklgt4:foi,,it is.diarigis`who prove one of the best Snurees available,te an:- one researching family • trees, famous battles* even Farming f.11„SIOMS of the past. It's bard to explain why anyone botherS to keep a diary- 1. Pr441,0).4. Church ISO feud .1*!a.* -breught to Canada with the Scottish settlers.. The 'diaries also record„•the•harsh conditions faced by travellers like Rev. Proudfoot, whose mission was to spread the gospel of Adores out of the forest. For example, he described the London has been •fortunate in having: many diarists; of •..t. ..fri* #melia Harris. wife of, One of Option's first • sett t" t rt !VA USAMS +0,Ff kin*. Mg se0t. the Secessions Church a brealcaWay (action of the Presbyterians, the homesickness many felt for their native Scotland and the diaries also hint at the winds of change soon to blow over Upper Canada. for Rev. Proudfoot was a staunch Reformer and an. acquaintance of men like our own Colonel Van Egmond. Rev. Proudfoot recorded both. personal. family matters and 'many delightful stores about couples he married and the day's social customs such as turkey shoots and work bees. Sometimes his own homesickness wacalso recorded: "Mr. Grieve called. today and chatted. 1 was much pleased with his manner. whenever any remark of a generetionS.of their 0Wri 4.11311,1e.S. Becher* Ott Harri set have OtilY to, read. theses journals ,,find their reels, , Irk the village where I grew up, the elderly mother of a 1,9114.4114 04rt he: (ea j?p'onynno witit o;4' ote;i:e0,4 (Ixo, ?fiti.01F Atkv• • d t ti4 (ten In, n'.rend that. spilt 4ith ha"Velpr4vided„.later hishlrIans with proudfoor,4 witio vert,.,:totiott:t Yzn: the tventcemong be treotiee*n 401106, wilt) .the let rca ,,kw po'g ere f44#.4tilit fir .4.'i;ael0lY re.$011,si:: • They *IV rs, °nil* feW nuttiqs cacti, day vent Serendipity by Alice Gibb' t .1) , k^ • 4nme, ogKteir mos- viou4b,i4 toiiiceligttogoo..-#04 lett,4 Ii4‘fUNi010.4fri* *infer :25101.0 yego or whatever time. ' . Five young area farmers last meek. completed a four week dairy school sponsored by Ralston Purina and held in Seaforth., • - • The students met once a ,W00, Sittrittg;•tbe , month,. to., • • district salesman for the study slides and take part in firm, on the final day of the seminar discussions at the program. Mr. VanGenderen, from St, Marys. said, the company runs several similar courses, and one in -hog management is being piannccl for The area: Those who received cern- - ficatcs upon completion of the program were ,Kevin "step by step' school. The first week's topic. calf and heifer management. was fol. icAlv-e4-0-Y-illstFiletiort-in dry- cow management, milking 'cow management and finally in repreiductive efficiency. religious kind was made. his eyei filled with tears. Ah,.• there is none in this country to be compared to the Southern Scots bred up in Secessipn!" As you've likely guessed. Proudfoot was himself a Lowlander. bred up in the Secession movement. opWtiiiiv4.04TeRt peri!tivie. is, atilt fungi: , ew • 0 • ":11VitEt o ,Tii:1:1",11:4, ;Aftitis:Aini Robvizek And ASgoeiateg bike gale. ,Sehednlitt tot 'lhe, building on :Main St- • Satilyday., April 5. , Organieergerriptiasire thet neighlionr. Who lived to her mid-96's, Wilfully kept a disappointing times as. . the .joyful oreasiolts. • theyVtake donations of any diary .for most "of her Life;recording the , weather, Sometimes, just writing those experiences down can make unwanted - articles and they information about when the crops were harvested. when -- them more understandable, perhaps leis hurtful and can she was on the farm, and in later years. the neighbourhood preserve the feelings of the moment to be savoured again can be given to parents of. nursery school students or news about quiltings she participatedin, family events and many years later. . left at the Rathwell the boats that docked locally. When she died her fatally, ' "" some of us keep diaries only when we travel- because no deciditteito one else would be interested in their. mother's matter how skilled our picture-taking. a camera can't rather ordinary life, destroyed the books. They also capture the awe you .feel when you first stand beside a' destroyed an important source of local history and likely an clear lake in the mountains or the breathtakipg hush of a invaluable source of family history. .., _great cathedral with sunlight shining through ornate A friend, a Kingston journalist , still bemoans the fate of stained glass windows made by craftsmen many centuries ago. One of the world's most famous diarists, James Boswell. the young Scot who travelled about Europe in the 1700 s. has left behind volumes of fascinating reading matter. While the subjects he studied abroad were far different than the subjects students tailkietoday, like any student he hacteoo many late nights. worried that he fell in love too often and fretted about his future when he whuld return to his father'slands in Scotland. Boswell's concerns really weren't very different than those Of many of today's students.; it's reassuring to know things we experience are pretty 'much the .same. no matter what the century.. Looking back over my own teenage, diairies. something I do very rarely. I'm surprised to find character sketches of people I've since forgotten. to discover how badly 1, was caught up in that time's "Trudeaumania reminded how young and naive I once was. I'd forgotten, for example. of the days when my one and only ambition was to be an Italian movie star. My ethnic background aside. I didn't dream oftieing a great drarnatic actress like Sephia Loren or even a comedienne like Gina Lollabridgatla: no, I,, wanted to be one of those blonde actresses with sultry eyes and ample bosoms,, Those ladies, whose names I've forgotten, were the Much put-upon. heroines of epics starring the,muscular Steve- Reeves, in roles like Hercules, Ulysses. Achilles and other Greek and 'Roman Superheroes. Those were the movies • that occupied many of my' Saturday nights. and I even went as far as practising the sultry. fiery-eyed look in fron t of our bathroom mirror. Deep breathing exercises. 1 was conVineed. we're guaranteed to provide that:ample bosom overnight. They didn't and .I never became an, Italian actress or diet Steve, Reeves. Diarists, like letter-writers: may - be threatened with extinction in, our computer age. But I hope they don't and Ray Vandenberg. . (Expositor photo) become a thing of the past: because; the things that • happ, .en to us day by day ,can never 6q. re-lived. from left, are KeVin Kale, Herman VanGender- en, course instructor and Lyle Haney: In the front row is Kevin Bennewies, Keith Bennewies Five graduate- frpm dairy school-.. "We are trying to provide an overall feeding and man- agement program for every aspect of fa explained Hermanr.minVgan- Genderen, instructor and 4 his grandfather's diaries. His grandfather came to Canada as a Bernardo boy- an English orphan sent out to Work for some Canadian family that would provide his room and board. He was a rough and ready character who sailed ter . yeah in and around the MartankeS; living, old age:alope in a cabin to 63,41, New Ortinspiclo.INbe4t died. his daughters. 00004. they were ,fl thing, destrOYed: als0 ,40twiing.ttOys mos4 tcf:0**,11. :.**T eh m'e 7:41: ali.pard the tiOnng,04tsitilbe doys'Vefore Me§hanized • ‘..P0F1".10it • $4v46.4045tt#ti f.41111,V144'rc9H0f00.41t.vV, ettntabol,becit 09000 to O., • 1.4Attu'Ob06;:Oili0F.4* Wit-ht*giwkstimaterig500404: Kale. R.R. S Seaforth, Lyle Haney. R.R. ,Seaforth; Kieven and Keith Benne- o wies, R.R. 1 ' Dublin and Doug Vandenberg, R.R. 5 Seaforth. The Seaforth course was the third, given by Mr. Van- Genderen this year. 'hvery week more and more people discover what 'mighty jobs are 'aeconi: plished by tow cost Huron, ExpeSiteir Want Ads. Dial 527-0240. lapse the fartliirtitOlighe,apprOpriate.' Bltt ilairY. WOW is aiSP'impertant for a far tinge elfish reason- because allows ng to record the day 'In events in our Ikea.' ttnth Pod and• sad. the painful and 7t N.ff 0 TRY-OUR SUNDAY SPECIAL only 5.11 per person which includes one trip to our buffet style salad bar This week we feature New York Sirloin or Roast Beef 04 C. For a quick lunch try our new steam table: -Hot---meat-and-salactbar,.._ The 1982 executive• of the Seaforth Farmers Co- operative was elected at the c.a.-0'i anneal. meeting Friday. The 'president of the co-op is Bill Wallace. of R.R. 4. Seaforth: the vice-president is Francis Hieknell of FLA. '5, Seaforth and the secretary is Gerry Vanden Hengel of R.R. 5. Seafoith. The board members are past-president Don Dodds. of R.R. 1, Seaforth.; Mac Stewart of R.R. I, Dublin. Doug Hugill of R,R. 2. Seaforth and Don McKercher of R.R. 1 Dublin. The annual meeting preened with' a banquet 'at Seaforth Legion Halt which' - was attended by 212 guests. More members attended the business meeting, following the "dinner to discuss co-Op policy. Remember, it take but a , moment to place an Ex- positor Want Ad. Dial 527-0240. Nursery school needs yoti' lit Y41407e- el1,4151-ing and. 4,ettkig, itItmlnf0 item matt ; '$ettfOrib's O n Q sc • s Co-op Wallace heads Seaforth r. eyld Iii•ve‘to 10P Q rr infuses': here, -0 everytwherT eise • CaAvio, ate *Ives. IR, pernted, en settlers; the oe4,00:41 .4'4100, most of the streetS a estil standing:the stunins *tor "9/J.I4 4".°1361cin)4 PiY0' *.°14/1"r'' . ' 4 • .„ • , . eeS" anothei Settler who dtltifyi r44 040, tlieat