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Shirley Keller
I know other families have
en all through it Y several
Imes in some cases. But this is
he first child we've had •to start
to, high school and somehow
we're worried.
Actually our teenaged
torment is .still in grade 8 and
will be until June, Whether Hall
and Dennis are to blame, I
couldn't say; 'but we had to
escort our lad to the high school
in February . for a kind of
indoctrination course..
Almost every youngster there
was accompanied by one or
more parents. It was difficult to
tell who was more nervous and
confused,
In our ease, my son took the
whole outing in stride. He
seemed to know exactly what
was happening and he was
disgruntled to learn that I
wanted to seize this opportunity
to talk to the staff.
"What do you want to tack to
the teachers about?" asked my
eager son. "I know the course
I'm taki*g. I know what I want
to do with my life. You mothers
always want to make things hard
for a fellow."
I suggested we tour the
building as all the other families
seemed to be doing.
"Haven't you ever seen a
school before," queried my
impatient boy. "If you want to
follow the crowd, go ahead, but
do you mind if I go with the
other guys for awhile? I'm tired
of doing nothing much."
°Doing nothing much!" I
exclaimed, :"We're just making
plans for the next five years of
your .life. You call that nothing
much."
"Gee, mom," he shrieked is
'desperate whispers. "Hundreds
of other kids have gone through
this school. It isn't exactly like
pioneer days. What's to get so
excited."
"Go ahead!" I say, knowing I
shouldn't give up so easily but
too weary to continue the battle
of right against might.
"Thanks, mom," he smiles
and saunters off ' down the
corridor like he owns the place,
No shyness of uncertainty there,
I think.
Fifteen minutes later I see my
boy again. This time he's leaning
casually against a locker door,
chatting with some prissy missy
in a mini -skirt.
He chats easily. She responds
with as much ease. They enjoy a
little joke — and part like two
old friends.
At their age I would have
died — just died — if I'd been
that close to a strange kid of the
opposite sex. Why my husband
didn't even know the difference
between boys and girls until he
owned his first car!
My son turns and horses
about with a group of fellows
about his own age. Every one of
those kids are as confident and
as sure as the average adult
anywhere.
A teacher Inakes his
appearance, The boys show their
respect by signalling "hello" but
there is no shaking and .quaking
in their shoes. They are assured
to a man!
I catch my sc,,. a aye.
"It's time to go," I say.
"OK,'." he agrees,
We walk through the school
to the exit. He expresses his
excitement at the thought of
attending classes here. His eyes
shine with the thrill of it all.
He chatters all the way home
about this and that. I remember
how terribly terribly excited I
was at the prospect of high
school and I recall how much
I wanted it NOT to show.
Maybe he's better prepared
for high school than I was.
Maybe he's just a better actor.
Either way I'm concerned. How
can you tell a boy of the
heartaches he'II know there? The
growing up he'll have to do?
Maybe I shouldn't even try.
by Bill Smiley
Sugar and. spice
Isn't it a delirious feeling,
about this time of year to wake
up in daylight, and get home
from work before dark?
It begins to restore one's
;faith in the scientists' claim
-that the earth is round, and
moves in orbit about the sun.
Or is it the other way 'round?
For about three months, any
winter, I'd join the Flat -Earth
Society, and agree with practi-
cally anybody that the sun is a
legend, a figment of last sum.
mer's imagination.
Don't know why I'm in such
a jolly mood today. Perhaps it
is that we've had three straight
days of sunshine. Freeze the
brains of a brass money, but
sunny.
Spring is on its way. I can
tell. The snowbank pushed up
beside my garage has dwindled
from 22 feet to 16. And two
teachers smiled at each other
in the staff room this week.
It's not such a bad old world
after all. Nobody has axed a
computer or lynched a univer-
sity president this week — yet.
My daughter passed two tests
in school; I got the garbage out
without cursing once.
Taylor's Corner
Holmesville and Benmiller where
a new bridge was built at the
foot of Forester's Hill. The now
unused right-of-way is to be
purchased by Leslie Jervis, R.R.
2, Clinton and Ewan Ross of
Goderich, owners of property
bordering the old road.
In other business, Norman
Fuller was named warble fly
inspector and Murray Reid of
Londesboro submitted the
lowest tender to supply warble
fly powder.
Listowel Silo Co. was low
bidder on drainage tile - - total
cost of the tile to be bought this
year is around $16,000.
An application was received
from J. C. Hindmarsh for
approval of a subdivision on lot
10, concession 1. The exact
number of lots involved was not
immediately known, but was
reported to be around 25 or 30.
The township's two road
grader operators were granted
increases of 15 cents per hour.
ST: PATRICK'S
TEA and
BAKE SALE
St. Andrew'S
Presbyterian
Church
Saturday
March 15
Tea
Served by
The Men
3 tb 5 0.tri.
Allspice
Madeleine Lane
Auxiliary
r
My wife and daughter have
stopped fighting (they gang up
on me, instead). My bursitis is
practically neutral. The income
tax deadline is nearly a whole
month away. I found the toe
rubber that's been missing for
a week. What more could a
man want?
The muffler hasn't fallen off
my car. I haven't had a tooth-
ache for six months. I almost
made a crucial curling shot the
other night. What more could
life offer?
My son is making his mark
in theworld.„ — of dining -
rooms. Some nights he makes
as much as $35. And some
nights' °$5. And he's making
something else; noises, vague
but audible, about going back
to school.
My daughter came home
from school today smiling, in-
stead of scowling. Her mother
asked her what she was smil-
ing at, as she came in. "The
door," poker-faced. Things are
definitely on the upswing
around here,
Now, don't get me wrong
I'm no Pollyanna. I know that
though God's in His heaven,
road to close
Goderich Township Council,
at its regular meeting Monday,
made plans to close a portion of
the old highway at Taylor's
Corner and eventually to dispose
.of the right-of-way to owners of
adjacent property.
The strip of roadway lies
northwest of the church,
between the church and school,
and was bypassed when the
highway was straightened and
rebuilt.
Plans Were also made to sell a
similar bypassed road segment
on the county road between
even on weekends, all's wrong
with the world. I know that
there are little black clouds, no
bigger than the Rocky Moun-
tains, on the horizon.
There are Black Pan-
thers, and the Yellow Menace,
and brown guerrillas, and white
gorillas, and pink elephants,
and blue singers, and reds un-
der a great many beds.
There are broken homes and
broken marriages and broken
garterbelts. Practically every-
body you meet over the age of
eight months is either emotion-
ally disturbed or senile.
We have explosions in the
population, the stock markets
and the furnaces of the nation.
Taxes and insurance and even
the important things, like
bread and milk, keep going up.
(It won't be long before most
of us are living on bread -and -
milk, considering the price of
meat.)
Cars are not being as well
made as tin cans. The non -re-
turnable bottle is our biggest
threat since the bubonic
plague. The Man -in -the -Moon
has lost his image and Mr.
Trudeau is following fast.
Tomorrow there will be a
blizzard. And the day after, the
muffler and tail -pipe will fall
off my car. My piles will re-
activate. I'll lose both toe -
rubbers.
But today I don't care. The
yellow sun is kissing the white
snow, and the latter, overcome
by passion, is melting. That is
all I know and all I need to
know. To hell with all the rest
of it.
I'm in such a state of eupho-
ria, I think I could even go out•
and have a whale of a time
with a girl called Gloria. If I
knew one.
With every $5.00 purthase you
wiff receive an attractive brocade
"carry all" tote bag containing
Dr./Barry Penetrating Cleanser
(suitable for all Skin types) and
Duearry Skin Prethenbr, both
in refillable travelling bottles,
With our compliments,
Wed 40 years ago today, Mr. and Mrs. William Dodds, RR 1,
Seaforth, open gifts presented by some of the more than two
dozen relatives w ho attended a party last Saturday at the Dodd
farm in McKillop Tom nship.
Started with group honeymoon,
McKillop couple marks 40th
Forty years ago today the
snow fell so heavily that a
newlywed couple and all their
wedding guests were stuck
overnight at the home of the
bride's parents on a farm in
McKillop Township.
But when Mr. and Mrs.
William Dodds of RR 1,
Seaforth marked their
anniversary last Saturday, the
sky was sunny and 26 members
of their family came to help
celebrate.
Stanley Twp.
books balance
Stanley Township ended
1968 with a $400 surplus, the
council learned at its regular
meeting Monday, when an audit
report was presented.
The report actually showed a
deficit of $2,030, but the
auditor noted that a $2,400 item
in accounts payable was carried
over to 1969, so the 1968
revenue was in fact $400 over
the expenses,
The councillors agreed to a
request by three Varna
ratepayers for a cost study on
street lighting improvement! ,in
the hamlet. Ontario hydro will
be asked to supply data.
Hary Coleman was named
warble fly inspector. llubert
Cooper's 12 -cent per head
warble fly spraying tender was
accepted and Murray Reid
submitted a low tender of $5.10
per 15-1b. bag for warble
fly powder.
Sandy Contracting Co., Ltd.
of Goderich was low bidder and
will supply the township this
year with about 16,000 cubic
yards of gravel at $1.36 per
yard, delivered.
Lowest tender to supply
calcium chloride was Lee
Jennison of Grand Bend at
$51.55 per flake ton delivered.
Expected purchase is 115 tons.
In other business, council
accepted a tile drain loan
application, awarded two fox
bounties and approved a $15
grant to the Soil and Crop
Association.
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The Dodds were wed the
evening of March 6, 1929, at the
farm of the bride's parents, the
late Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Webster.
The bride, Pearl Webster, was
attended by her sister Mae, now
Mrs. E. Holland of Toronto. The
groom, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Dodds, had his
brother, Adam, as groomsman.
Quite early that evening, a
terrific snowstorm started and
when the wedding dinner was
over, only the minister, the Rev.
W. P. Lane, braved it home by
horse and cutter. The guests and
bridal couple remained on the
farm overnight and, in the
morning, the Dodds left on a
wedding trip to Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Dodds have one
daughter, Mrs. Fred (Dorothy)
McGregor of Brucefield and a
son, Donald on the homestead in
Sea fort h. They are also
grandparents of five.
Clinton personals
Bill Fisher, new credit officer
at the Clinton branch of the
Bank of Montreal, was
transferred here this week from
,the branch in Exeter. Ile ,is the
:son "of .Mr. and . Mrs. Gordon
Fisher of lucknow. :
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Porter
visited with relatives in St. Marys
over the weekend.
Adastral Park new"
C.FPB. Clinton women
hold closed bonspiel
Qlintpn News -Record., Thl~+rsday, Merch 0, 1909 3
Fly Sandra Sinker
The CFB Clinton Ladies'
Curling .Club field its annual
Closed Bonspiet on Saturday.
The ladies played two 10 -end
games Mid enjoyed a delicious
Catholic league
ladies hold tea
The Catholic Women's
League of St. Paul's Church,
Adastral Park, recently held a
most successful annual
Valentine Tea. The tea tables
were decorated with small
'bouquets of flowers while the
main table held a candelabra and
floral arrangement,
Pouring tea during the
afternoon were Mrs. Rita Ryan,
Mrs. Pamela Warner, Mrs. Mary
Cournoyer and Mrs. Florence
Youmatoff, The president, Mrs.
Evelyn Slater, greeted the ladies
and guests at the door. Mrs.
Shirley Rasmusson was convenor
of the event and she was ably
assisted by Mrs. Sylvia Langevin.
Mrs. Lois Beseau was in
charge of the raffle table and she
was helped by many friends and
members of the CWL. Invaluable
service was given by members of
the Girl Guides who helped to
wait on tables as well as sold
raffle tickets door to door.
Mrs. Bev Fischer convened
the Tea Table while Mrs. Marg
Belton and Mrs. Verna Paulin
were in charge of the kitchen
arrangements. The Bake table
was successful due to the efforts
of Mrs. Anne Thompson, Mrs.
Marion McNee and Mrs. Irene
Brezinski.
The prize winners were: first
prize, a Polaroid Camera, Mrs.
Sharon Cormier, CFB Clinton
and second prize, footstool, Mrs.
Flara, Varna. A valentine cake
(baked and donated by L.
Beseau) was won by Mrs, Mary,
Wride, CFB Clinton, and the
door prize, donated by the Base
Beauty Salon, was won by Mrs.
Shirley Rasmusson, CFB
Clinton. Drawing the tickets for
these prizes were Father F. Lally
and Padre G. Youmatoff.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. : Syl;via Harwood is a
Patient'," tin Clinton. . Public..
Hospital and Mrs. Shirley
Rasmusson is a patient in
Seaforth Public Hospital.
lunch as well as a supper of fried
Chicken -
First -prize winner was the
rink skipped by Mrs. Vera
Sparks, with Sharon Monkhouse,,
Karen Kerr and Marion McNee.
Second prize went to the rink
skipped by Mrs, Mary Danford
with Lizette Parsons, Marion
Turner and J3arb Gowanlock.
Third -prize winner was Mel
Pageot's rink with Tillie Hack,
Mary Brown and Marg Lince.
The consolation prize was
won by Del Jervis' rink with
Joyce Walker, Roberta Bagnall
and Trey Richardson.
After the presentations, Mrs.
Del Jervis thanked the executive
for a grand day on behalf of the
ladies, The president, Mrs. Bev
Fischer, took the opportunity to
thank her executive members,
Mary Bartley, Jane Golding, Del
Jervis and Edith Motomura for
their efforts over the season .and
she also thanked all those who
had helped to make the event
successful.
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"Now I've no time
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"Last year
1 even broadcast
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