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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-08-16, Page 2Page 2 The Times-Advocate, August 10, 1962 New RC school nears completion $40,000 JOHN STREET BUILDING TO OPEN IN SEPTEMBER Buildin school 1.6••••••1111,11,a0.1....16.. Crossroads Africa Supplied by Ontario Safety League, 208 King W., Toronto For insertion week August 13th ,••••••••, ,•••••••••• ••••* ••••••.... ••••••••• ••••• AlMnploolt ,••••••• 11•1141.A CM. .4.2rmEn% Elmer Summer Safety Contest No, 3 an You FondThE WM? Here is Thy third Summer Safety Contest, It's easy, lots of fun to enter. The picture is based on my rule "RIDE YOUR BIKE SAFELY AND OBEY ALL SIGNS AND SIGNALS". Start right now to find what; wrong in the picture, You may win a rtcw Raleigh bicycle or a Sono. Lite. I. 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Perhaps it wouldn't be wise to .tell you what we are going to do until after we get well under way hut I think it is fairly safe to say that we will he building a school at Toci- naire, a little village 18 kilo- meters south of St. Louis, near the mouth of the Senegal Ri- ver. The Senegal estuary is a strange thing, The river comes within about 100 yards of the ocean here at St. Louis; then it cuts south for 20 kilometers. running parallel to the coast, all the time gradually edging towards the Atlantic. Al the concurrence of the two there is quite a sight, very many sand banks, boiling water, general turbulence and the current is quite swift. The other day we visited the work site, just outside the vil- lage about 400 meters from the river. The bulldozers were busy clearing the land so that we will be able in start tomorrow. We Mill have breakfast here at the Lycee Technique, go by bus to 'rocinaire, work till noon, eat lunch in a big tent in the center of the village, siesta until 3 ;o'clock, work till five, then re- .•.turn for supper. 'Pas mal' as they say. Later I'll tell you more about these villages as I see more, but right now I should record some of my impressions of St. Louis, a city quite different from Dakar in many ways; as thfferen! as Quebec City is dif- ferent. from Montreal. It is the former capital of Senegal; since 1958, Dakar has taken over the function of a capital city and St. Louis is now a regional ca- pital. like Tortnfo. In addition, St, Louis is one of the oldest cities it West Africa. At night the city has an air of unreality — as though it had jumped out of the pages of a novel, a romantic novel of Mos- lem Africa. Saturday night, our first night here, we went into the city for a walk, met quite a few people, saw the moonlight over the ocean, and attended an unfor- gettable street dance, where the only accompaniment was provided by a band of large tom-toms and where the danc- ing was all individual. Those who felt moved to by the music (and it was hard not to) would leap out into the street by themselves and dance. There is a fairly formal pat- tern for this type of dancing — yet each woman is free to vary her steps as she pleases. The very good dancers are ap- plauded quite well and some are even given money. We had a place on the balcony of a house overlooking the street and con- sequently missed little. All the vocal necessities are carried on in Wolof, including the songs, One of the most amazing sights was provided by a little girl who escaped from her mo- ther's clutches and went out in- to the street and began to dance and did excellently. Even the children here are superb dancers — not like the shamble- footed Canadians. They have a built-in sense of rhythm. Another interesting thing — their songs are sung with a syn- copated time, In my promenade this morning, I called at a "premiere ecole" for girls, and one class was in the act of preparing for a ``c it u r al 'soiree' " that evening, The whole class was singing and clapping what was basically a simple tune; but, the added rhythm, which was highly syn- copated, made it unusual, much more complex and typically African. All over Dakar and St. Louis you will find many grocery shops where you can buy gen- eral food-stuffs and soft drinks of sorts. You are likely to find these stores right in the midst of a crowded native slum set- tlement where the streets are no more than a meter or so wide! Native settlements in St. Louis tend to be a much more crowded version of the villages one finds out in the bush, The basic unit is not the house but a kind of court-yard, fenced off from the rest of the settlement by board or corrugated iron fences in the city and in the country by grass fences, I believe that each enclosure belongs to a man, for the fam- ily is not really the basic social unit; rather it is the tribe or the village. At any rate each wife has her own hut in the compound; and there are huts for other purposes. There is an English chap here who has been teaching English in the Lycee in St. Louis. He has just completed his Cambridge Advance Level at Eton, and is going to Oxford in the fall. He is here on Brit- ain's answer to the Peace Corps — the British Overseas Volunteers — for a sojourn of seven months or so, He is quite well liked by the Senegalese students. Many of them speak English with immaculately cul- tivated English accents. It's quite humorous, really, By the day, this fellow comes from Exeter, England. Our living accommodations are quite good really. The boys all sleep in a fairly large 'dor- toir' which contains in all about thirty beds. There are large wash-rooms, with typically mal- functioning plumbing.... The cuisine here is excellent; the cooks specialize in Senegal dishes, the base of which is rice or millet, fish, plenty of spice, and stewed meat. 4eiommismoef.36v.e..: . Lotter from Kirkton By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS .. Mr. and Mrs, William Hard. ing, of St, Marys, Mr, and Mrs. Alvin Harding and Gerald, of Owen Sound, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Everett Doupe. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Loundell, Patti and Mark are vacationing at Parry Sound, Mrs, Lila Bromley, of Cal- gary, visited a few 'days with her niece, Mr. and. Mrs, Dave ShambIaw. Misses Ethel and Vera Road- house were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Switzer. Family.,camp beside river By .MRS, WILLIAM ROHDg THAKES WAD Messrs. David., 'Roy and Lar, ry Genttuer of London are camping on the river bank at the home of Mr. and Mrs„ Glenn J effery. Rersonol items Miss Dorothy Poptestone of Kitchener, Mrs, Harper .Rivers of Exeter visited one day last week with Mr. and Mrs, Per- u .Stone. Mrs, William Hunt of Benito, Manitoba is ..visiting with her sister, Mrs. Annie Thomson, Mr. and Mrs, Ken Qttewetl, Richard and Michael of Exeter, Mr. and Mrs, Edwin Miller, Brian, Barry and Barbara spent Sunday at 1pperwash. Mr, and Mrs. Wilfred linnkin, Margaret and Kenneth, Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd 'Knight and Linda spent Sunday at Port IFranks. Mr. and Mrs. Grieve Elliott of Westbank, British Columbia, spent last Wednesday with her niece, Mrs, Jennie Moore. Mr. and Mrs. John McLauch. Ian and Katherine of Lambeth visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Glenn Jeffery, Mr. and Mrs. William. Snow, Billy, Bobby and Jimmy at- tended the Love picnic at Ri- verview Park, Exeter, op Sun. day, the occasion being the birthday of Mr. Hugh Love of Hensall. Mr, and Mrs. Stuart Shier of Kirkton called on IVIr. and Mrs. William Rohde and Mr. and Mrs, Glenn Jeffery on Sunday evening. There will be no Sunday School or church set-vice for the next two Sundays. Set taxes for Hibbert The 1962 tax levy for Hib- bert township was struck last week. Rates are as follows; County, 12 mills; residential and farm, 15 mills; commercial, .17 mills. Other rates are: USS 1, com- mercial, 6.59 mills; PS Area No. 1, residential, 13.55; and commercial, 15.06; SS 4, resi- dential, 14; SS 5, residential, 11; SS 6, residential, 10.9, and commercial, 12.1; SS 7, resi- dential, 9. Separate school areas 2, 3, and. 4, residential, 14,05 and commercial, 15.61; Dublin Con- tinuation School, 10; Seaforth HS District, 13,92; Dublin Vil- lage, 4, and lighting, 6.5. The .Kleinfeldt and the Mar- sales municipal drain reports have been received and will be read at a later date. The clerk was also instructed to adver- tise for tenders on the same drains. Road amounts for $8,271.87 and general accounts amount- ing to $2,067,72 were ordered paid. "Martha, you've been twee!). ing The dirt Under the rug again . .