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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-10-23, Page 22Halloween Dance EXETER LEGION HALL Sat., Nov. 1 9 - 1 a.m. Music by MOZART'S MELODY MAKERS $3.00 per couple Costumes Preferred Prizes for Costumes Tickets on sale at Legion Bar and from Executive Members Members of/ Exeter -council's. finwo.gormitteg will Meet with RAP to discuss fully the finanelal. plight uf the recreation, arena and parks beard Committee. RAP chairmen Jack Under- wood, who presented his letter of resignation at Monday's council Meeting, requested the meeting, pointing out it would be the best way in which everyone could Hot Turkey Supper at HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Lucan Wed, Oct, 29 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m, Adults $4.00 Children under 12 $2.00 Preschoolers - Free LIONS BINGO Starts Oct. 27 2nd & 4th Mondays GRAND BEND LEGION HALL 8:00 p,m. Admission $1.00 15 games 3 share the wealth games JACKPOT $210 IN 53 CALLS No one admitted under 16 years of age Family Night Dance KIRKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Friday, Oct. 31 9 p.m. Music by THE WILDWOODS $4,00 per family Ladies please bring lunch Free Pop FREE BUS SERVICE to the London BINGO Games Every Monday and Wednesday BUS DEPARTS AS FOLLOWS bashwood „. . 6,15 p.m. Exeter 6:30 p.m, Huron Pori( .... „ 6140 Centralia, ..... „..„ 6:45 p.m, Luton 6;55 pm. Phone 235-0450 1.41«ivwer RAP financial plight to be discussed with _councillors Elimville United Church CENTENNIAL SERVICE Sunday, October 26 11 Cl.M. Guest Speaker; REV. HAROLD SNELL of Exeter Special Music by HARRY & BOB HERN Social Hour following the service CENTENNIAL BOOKS AVAILABLE Everyone Welcome 30th Wedding Anniversary Dance for EMIL 8 KATHARINE BECKER Fri., Nov, 7 9-- I a.m. DASHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE Musk by, ROGER QUICK Please No Gifts Lunch Provided Everyone Welcome r Reception and Dance for JOYCE McCLURE and GORDON CHAPPEL (Bridal Couple) Fri,, Oct. 24 9 1 a.m. KIRKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Music by THE BUNDOWNEBB Lunch Provided Everyone Wekorne iumitutinnemeimomieropinuelemetinunoneininninonieunumioniminiounett NOW 131100 20 Thurs. Oct. 23 , 8:00 p.m. GAMES EXETER LEGION HALL JACKPOT '400 In 56. calls PRIZES PLUS 3 DOOR 1 admission per person No Reserve Seats Shar ,the'Wet:lith - 2 cords for 2s; F, Extra, cards each or 5/$1.00 Admission $1.00 far 113.Rounds Sponsored By Ladies' Auxiliary No One Under 16 Years of Age Will Be Admitted 'Typhoon LH' IN PERSON Hear Lillian Dickson HEAR ABOUT ELECTRICAL SAFETY — Students in area elementary schools ore receiving safety instruction this fall from officers of the Ontario Provincial Police. Above, Constable J. Wray tells J.A.D. McCurdy students Paulette Rothbouer, Carole Morrissey, Dean Hayter and Corey Wilson about precautions to take with electrical power. T-A photo Youth often denied childhood Huron Children's Aid told it 0 rw It 17 Regular ot 1 Jackpot 2 Share-the. Wealth if ,f4,M111.110iiigl loll kpolIS 1 41 1 1 11 11 11 1 1 1 11 1 11 1 11 1 11 1 1 of Taiwan—Borneo—Papua The Missionary heroine a of Ken Wilson's "Angel at Her Shoulder" A living legend of our time will be in our midst soon. The Reader's Digest called her, "Littlest Lady with the Biggest Heart," To Daniel Poling she "demonstrated the 'faith once delivered' as no other mortal I hove ever known." Bob Pierce of World Vi-s' sion talks about "the true 'Lil' Dickson with her smile, her courage, her tireless energy and indomitable spirit — not to mention the ever-present angel whose frequent tops on her shoulder 5; she so often whimsically describes — lust can', be contained in mere facts. You'll have to meet her for yourself!" L Thursday, Oct. 23 7:45 p,m. CAVEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH r Sponsored by Exeter District Christian Women's Club El )1:1) A letter from:- Exeter Travel Centre Dear reader, this week, in co-operation with The Exeter Times Advocate and Skylark Holidays, Exeter Travel Centre is pleased to offer you a selection of Winter holidays in a colourful insert. Regular readers of the Times Advocate know that Exeter Travel Centre has been in operation since April. We are very grateful to the local companies and individuals who have used the various services which we have to offer. Exeter Travel Centre is a registered Travel Agency under the Ontario Travel Act, our licence number being:- 000 935 1. Serving the travelling public is our only business, whether you are travelling for pleasure or on business, whether by air, rail, cruise liner or touring coach. Being under the same management as The Coach House Travel Service in Goderich, Exeter Travel Centre is able to offer you over thirty years experience in the Trove( Industry. It surprises many people when they find that the majority of the services we offer are free. We derive our living from the commissions paid to us by the principals, airlines, railways etc, Coll in or phone us, we are in your new directory and we ore open for business from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Regards, The management and staff, Exeter Travel Centre. "For nothing is fixed forever and forever; it is not fixed. The earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down the rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because they are the only witnesses we have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and the children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." — James Baldwin. With this remark, Dr. Donald Morgenson, Professor of Psychology at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, summed up his address to the guests at the Huron County Children's Aid banquet held in Clinton Thursday evening. Dr, Morgenson's topic was "Childhood's End" and dealt with the rights and privileges of children in any society, In a humorous but explicit way, Dr. Morgenson defined childhood as a marvellously carefree period of life to which all are entitled — and then went on to explain how the youth of today is rebelling against a society which often denies them that kind of up- bringing. "It is a fact that many years ago children were an integral part of adult family life, but we have seen over the past 400 years a gradual but sure isolation process occurring, where we have pushed them gently into a world almost totally devoid of adults," Dr. Morgenson said, "Slowly but surely we have forced them to create a world of their own, No wonder then, as John Plumb has said in. the winter Horizon, (1971) they have made that world a citadel of rebellion." The speaker pointed out that ancient paintings and writings attest to the fact that in times long past, children lived their lives together with adults. They were never really apart from them. They ate with them, drank with them, partied with them, played with them, He pointed out that famous paintings such as the Battle Between Carnival and Lust (1559); the Peasant Wedding (1568); and the Peasant Dance' (1568) by Bruegl showed "men and women drunk out of their skulls, groping for each other with unbridled lust" having children eating, drinking and playing right along with the adults. "Children were not thought as requiring a special or sometimes sterile environment," Dr. Morgenson said, "They were not thought to require special en- tertainment, special clothes, (except as size would dictate), nor was it thought necessary to isolate them from the very sophisticated ribaldries of adult life, in the tavern or at home." After 1500, the speaker told his audience, society and the whole western world needed highly skilled and highly trained men for commerce, law, medicine, business. Science and technology began to invade more and more of village life, church life, commercial life and finally family life. "From about 1800 onward," Dr. Morgenson stated, "these needs increasingly dominated man's activities in Western society. The monstrous growth of technology demanded more prolonged intensive and ex. tensive education. This prolonged education slowly but surely separated children, and adolescents from the adult world." "Youngsters rather naturally created a world of their own choosing, one that incorporated their own morals, their own clothes, their own music, their own mythologies," the speaker continued. "In turn, the older youngsters began to capture the minds and the hearts of children, who shared the same existential territory." John Plumb put it this way: "We can now look back with longing to the late medieval world, when, crude and simple as it was, men and women and children lived their lives together, shared the same morals as well as the same games, the same.,,excesses , as ,well ,as the same austerities. In essence, youth today is rebelling against 400 years of repression and ex- ploitation," "Essentially split-level families, not only split-level homes," the speaker said. Dr. Morgenson deplored the regimented playtime, the lack of opportunities for what he called wasteland experiences and the repression of imagination in today's formula for childhood, "Perhaps technology, that opiate of the people, has come close to killing beauty, holiness, mystery and innocence," Dr. Morgenson said. "These are things Which I find most beautiful in children. in sum, perhaps science has killed the innocence of children, and come close to killing childhood. Kids, if this is true, may be trying to avoid their own childhood's end by their flight into unreason, where they can preserve magic and in- nocence." Dr. Morgenson went on to say that in his opinion, adults may also be resisting their childhood's end, but in a slight different way. "Look at styles today, clearly reminiscent of paSt years, irrecoverably lost decades," the speaker said. "Books such as catalogues originally published years and years ago, representing a lost world, lost relationships etc. Home designs, decorations, the entire world possibly sickened by a hopelessness in today's world, would like to take that fatal step into the past where things were clearly more human, more in- nocent, more childlike." "Youngsters of today appear to be more controlled and inhibited, fearing expressiveness," Dr, Morgenson observed. "They tend to intellectualize many things, apparently somewhat afraid of being human. They are considered by many to be pseudo,- mature, cool, detached, emotionally bankrupt and completely bored. They are also developing a self-centered in- tellectualism," Factors which may have contributed to this state of affairs may be the bomb and the over- whelming technology of the age; mass media which the professor says has made hypocrites of many world leaders; affluence; depression-bred parents; and the fact that kids have been exiled to a world where there are "few adults to rap with, few adults to identify with". "They simply are not as colorful, lively, flamboyant, easy-going as former youngsters may have been," Dr. Morgenson feels, "Many of our kids have not learned to play with easy abandon, so that even their pursuit of of pleasure seems frenetic and forced," "In short, they are prematurely mature, sober, appearing as adolescents who have skipped childhood and as young adults who have somehow skipped adolescence. Some play at love and loving, but without: t really- experiencing the intimacy? and devotion which most often sustains love in mature relationships." Tracing his own childhood from endless kite flying through sandlot sports to marbles from dawn to dusk and hiking with friends for days and days, Dr. Morgenson added, "My potential in those days concerned no one, but me occasionally, We were free to do what we wanted, If the world worries about me at all today, it is because of the possibility that I might live too long." He urged his audience to resist childhood's end. "Our salvation appears to lie in our dreams," the professor said. "The child who is the dreamer, the dawdler, the mystic, will be able to rekindle the human imaginations and rekindling of imagination is vital today." He said that in this age of change and challenge, people are sorely tempted by two forces — love for the new and a flight from responsibility. "I certainly hope that the Children's Aid Societies of Ontario can successfully resist enshrining the new, repudiate the old and tested tradition and I hope that also professional child care workers of the CAS will remain models for other adults in our society who have lost their parental concern," Dr. Morgenson concluded. The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent a man may use to build his monument. Success may go to one's head, but the stomach is whereit gets in its Worst work. Old shoemakers never die — they just last and last, Reception and Dance for DEBBIE AIKENHEAD arid RON FERGUSON (Bridal Couple) Sat., Oct. 25 9 - 1 a,m, ZURICH ARENA Music by "COUNTRY" Lunch Provided Everyone Welcotne Dance EXETER LEGION HALL Music by MOZART'S MELODY MAKERS Fri„ Oct. 24 9 - 1 a.m. $3.50 a couple Tickets Available at Door Hensall Kinette RUMMAGE SALE and Arnold Circle BAKE SALE Thurs., Oct. 23 7 - 9 p.m. at HENSALL ARENA Reception and Dance for HELEN WARREN and DOUG KYLE (Bridal Couple) Fri., Oct. 24 9 - 1 PINERIDGE CHALET HENSALL Music by HEYWOOD BROS. Lunch Provided Everyone Welcome Won points at London dog show Mrs. Eileen Currie of the Brialin Kennels, Lucan, showed her female Keeshond at the London Canine Association Show on Friday and Saturday. Both days she won "Winner Female" for five points towards her championship. The champion male "Champion Brialin Sehipper' has been sold to a new kennel in Nova Scotia for a future dog show. Mr. & Mrs, Rick Haveling recent bride and groom from Fort Frances have returned home after visiting a week with his mother Mrs, Edith Haigh and were dinner guests of Mr. & MrS. Cecil Murray They also visited friends in London Sr Stratford. Mr. & Mrs, Stuart Wolfe spent the weekend in London with Mr. & Mrs. John Parker and Scott William and attended the bap- tism of their grandson, Scott William, at Gethsemane Milted Church, Sunday, The family of ERVIN and HEDY DEVINE invite you to attend their parents' 35th Wedding Anniversary Dance Sat., Nov. 1 PASHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE 9 - 1 wt. Music by COUNTRY UNLIMITED Everyone Weltorne Best Wishes Only understand the situation. apparently answered to her At last week's RAP meeting, it satisfaction. She'was particularly was indicated that the committee interested in some of the ac- would possibly end the year with counts receivable listed by RAP. a deficit of more than $20,000, After noting the lengthy list of although Underwood hinted this Riverview Park picnics that were week it could be as low as $15,900. delinquent in payment, she Coencillor Barb Bell had suggested RAP "take good care compiled a statement on RA,P's they (those not paying) don't get finances and asked several the facilities next year". questions, of which were She was advised by Underwood that RAP had already given that matter some consideration. After council agreed to stage the joint meeting, Councillor Garnet Hicks suggested Mrs. Bell be included in the discussions because of the amount of work she has put into the matter already, Underwood had left the meeting before his written resignation was read as part of the correspondence. He explained he had un- dertaken additional ad- ministrative duties at the Cen- tralia College of Agricultural Technology and would have to give up his RAP duties to fulfill his obligations there and also with his family, He said he had found the work interesting "and in most cases rewarding". Council agreed to accept his resignation "with regret" and to extend him their thanks for his past service. "He's been a good man," Reeve Derry Boyle noted, The executive committee was asked to consider a replacement. In other business pertaining to RAP, council approved their recommendation to acquire .265 acres of land from Len Veri as his requirement for parkland in his new subdivision. The land to be acquired will not be taken from the subdivision, but rather from an area to the east that as yet has not been developed. The actual land to be given the town will be on a mutual agreement at the time the area to the east of the curling rink is developed. Underwood told council that in the future, RAP should have some input into the parkland to be acquired in all subdivisions being developed in the com- munity so they don't end up with land that is not practical, He also mentioned the com- plaint of Mr. and Mrs. Jim DeBlock over the condition of land adjacent to their Sherwood Crescent home. Underwood and recreation director Jim McKinley noted that the actual ownership of the land waseonfusing,in that some people thought it was owned by the town and others felt it was still owned by developer Gib Dow. Councillor Barb Bell said she had discussed the matter with Dow this past week and he claimed ownership of the land. It was agreed Monday night to have the property committee check into the matter and also to start proceedings to get a deed for riverflat land that Dow did give to the town in lieu of parkland in the Dow subdivision. In honour of their parents 45th Wedding Anniversary the family of MURRAY & LAURA ROWE invite everyone to a Dance PARKHILL COMMUNITY CENTRE Friday, Oct. 24 Dancing 9. 1 Music by ROGER QUICK & THE RAINBOWS Lunch Provided Dance K/PKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Sat., Oct. 25 Musk by RANCHEROS NO Blue Jeans Please Coming Nov 8 DESJARDINES , most