Times-Advocate, 1979-03-21, Page 23Times-Adyocate, March 2], 1979
Stephen CentralTIGER
TIMES
February 8, the final
public speaking contest was
held at our school. Roxanne
Woods won first place with a
speech on the trials of a
supply teacher.
Arlene Walper told of her
experience at the Super
Slide in Quebec to finish in
second place. A little
brother was the topic of
third place winner, Kathy
Shade.
Fourth place winner Susan
McClure spoke on writing
her speech. Congratulations
to the winners.
Susan McClure
Arlene Walper
February 28 public speak
ing was held at the Crediton
Community Centre spon
sored by the Crediton Social
Club. After the speeches
were finished, the judges
left to decide the winners.
Being Stephen Central
School won the trophy last
year they were asked to
provide the entertainment
during this time. Mrs.
Talbot played the piano for a
group of singers,
A 30 minute play was held
entitled “Fit to be Tied”
starring Connie Schroeder,
Allan Brand, Rick Tieman,
Faye Gaiser", Todd Case,
Karen Hodge and sound
effects Tim Bender. The
play was about two
members of the family who
never get along.
We all had fun doing the
play and the cast wishes to
thank their director, Mr. D.
Finkbeiner, for his help and
patience. ’
Connie Schroeder
On the afternoon of
February 26 we held a
winter carhival at Stephen
Central School, It was a
cold, crisp day but the
younger children didn’t pay
much attention to the
weather because they par
ticipated in so many events,
ranging from the ski race to
the rest stop.
There were eight events
including the rest stop which
was served in the gym
nasium and you could sit
down by the main door and
have a free hot chocolate
which really warmed you
up. It was a successful after-
noonwith theexception of not
too much snow.
Kim Horner
Lorraine Labelle
Thursday and Friday of
last week, the bus patrols of
S.C.P.S. participated in the
first level of the St. John’s
ambulance course. It was
very educational to all of the
bus patrols. Thursday they
received a booklet called
“Help yourself” and Friday
received their First Aid Cer
tificate.
March 16 the students in
Stephen Central School
received their report cards.
Some students were looking
forward to getting their
report cards, to see how
high or low their marks are,
while others were not very
excited.
I myself, was looking
forward to reading my
report card, to see how well
I did. We all hope we did
fairly well.
» Martine MacDonald
The senior and in
termediate students of our
school are preparing an
operetta for the spring
season. The operetta is en
titled Tom Sawyer. The
senior cast has been picked
and the intermediate cast is
still in progress.
The senior cast major
parts are Tom Sawyer —-
Allan Brand, Aunt Polly —
Faye Gaiser, Huck — Doug
Woodburn, Joe — Tim
Bender, Amy Lawrence —,
Michele Vanderworp, Becky
Thatcher — Karen Hodge.
We will notify you later as to
the date of our operetta. We
hope you will attend.
Faye Gaiser
Karen Hodge
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Elimville creek watching
tells approach of spring
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BETTER PANCAKE BATTER — Pancakeswere on the menu for members of the South Huron Big Brothers during Saturday's
visit to the Jack Ford sugar bush in Stephen township. From the left are Carla Elliott, director Mary Gregg, Little Brother Robert
Jay and Big Brother Jarle Fisher. T-A photo
Lisa Becker
I have recently taken a
survey in our school of how
the Grade 8’s are going to
spend their March Break. It
seems that most of them are
going to spend their vacation
lazing around home, getting
rested up so they can put
their best effort forward in
the third term.
A few are travelling to
different parts of the
province. Some may even be
going to the States or the
west coast. I sure wish I
could go with them.
Roxanne Woods
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Centennial
Continued from Page 21
Huron Centennial School
Association held a very
successful dance at
Vanastra Community Hall.
The Royal Aires of Stratford
provided the music for the
evening. Parents and friends
of the school enjoyed a
pleasant time together while
proceeds realized went to
help finish paying for
adventure playground,
are still waiting for
Wintario grant to make
final payment.
It is the time of year to
think of kindergarten
registration. Anyone born
in 1974 can be registered on
Thursday, March 29. Call
527-1243 for an appointment
if you have a child or know of
someone ready to start
school. o
The first Friday after
Winter Break March 30 will
be Movie Night at Huron
Centennial. The featured
film is “The Boatnicks”.
Keep that'evening in mind.
Library monitors continue
to bq a big help in main
taining the daily function of
the Library. Recent
students honoured as
Library Monitor of the Week
have been — Kendra Papple,
February 5-9, Rosslyn
Elliott, February 12-19
Philip Menary
February 19-23, Becky
McKinley, February 26-
March 2, and Lori Strong,
March 5-9.
Plans are being made
presently for our spring
concert on the theme of the
International Plowing Match'
which will be presented on
April 25 and 26. Practise will
begin in earnest after the
Winter Break Circle these
dates on your calendar and
plan to attend one of the
performances.
May everyone have a safe
and happy winter break. c
Dear Management & Staff,
I was pleased to learn that
you received the award for
the best newspaper, in its
class, at the Ontario Weekly
Newspaper ' Association in
Toronto recently.
Congratulations and may I
wish you continued future
success.
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Yours sincerely,
R. E. McKinley, MP
Huron-Middlesex.
Dear Sir:
So Prime MinisterTrudeau
is setting up another inquiry
into food prices. With very
little effort we recall the
Food Price Review Board
established by the Liberal
government in May 1973,
Beryle Plumptre was ap
pointed chairman.
The task of the Board: a)
to publish analyses of food
price movement, b) to in
quire into the, cause of price
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OB S. Burton 641 0 80
FL M. Brintnell 674 5 81
DA K. Rader 620 2 49
SP G. Stire746 7 98
su G. Webb 667 0 63
C4 D. Jackson 686 5127
RO P. Durand 653 2 93
CB J. Triebner 779 5 54
OP K. Mason 620 2 87
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FL M. Dialre 686 5116
YW F. Wells 651 7103
. BS B. Hogg 682 0 919 EF O. Jaques 561 0 88
8TH K. Easterbrooke 644 2 86
TR M. Brintnell 713 5 69
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CG M. Sweitzer 504 2 93
PP E. Skinner 672 5114
BB I. Rogerson 631 5107
RO J. Penninga 672 2 82
WR N. Westlake 508 5 72
MM V. Lindenfield 634 5123
JS M. Bridges 527 2 57
PK J. Frayne 712 5100
AH O. Essery 664 2119
SP I. Browning 605
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TS P. Seller 615 2 63
HG H. Edwards 653 5 66
MN T. Rooseboom 635 4112
IB E. Mielke 638 0114
TL B. Bowerman 750 3135
DS D. Datars 639 7 70
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HH J. Thompson 500 0 63
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FA W. Campbell 670 3111
CH C. Murray 652 4 97
CO B,Sanders 600 5 85
BB S. Glanville 560 4 71
TC M. Koricina 652
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MP B. McGrath 712 5 99
CF R. Hippem 685 2 91
BL B. Barnes 786 5 84
DN M. Barker 593 2 79
GT B. Hogg 608
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Wednesday Morning
A. Wilson
B. Smith
B. Elgie
G. Middlton
L? Snell
Senior Citizens
C. Down
C. Hendy
L. Lamport
M. McKnight
T. Walker
H. May
Monday Afternoon Men
W. Shapton
G. Hoggarth
T. Walker
C. Smith
C. Fisher
C. Hendy
B. Etherington
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increases, c) to examine the
pricing policies and prac
tices of food companies.
The cost of the Board: a)
$970,000 for fiscal year 1974
and $1.5 million for fiscal
year 1974-75. b) $40,000 —
1973 and $52,000 - 1974 for
Mrs. Plumptre’s salary.
The conclusions of the
Board: a) while food prices
have been rising, so have in
comes. b) anyways food
prices are rising in other
countries, c) and besides
there isn’t anything we can
do about it.
Sorry Mr. Trudeau, but I
can’t see the voters of
Canada swallowing another
red herring.
Your truly
Stuart Craine
V &
Canadian Heart Fund would
not be able to express such
an outlook.
April 1979 has been
designated as “High Blood
Pressure Month”. The
theme for this month is
“Down With High Blood
Pressure” and at the end of
March we will supply you
with an educational media
kit on high blood pressure
and hope you will make
extensive use of the
material.
Thank you again, for your
past support — as always, it
is truly appreciated.
With best wishes.
Yours very truly,
Canadian Heart Foundation
Ontario Division
Esther M. Richards
Director of Public Relations
iSee our Representatives
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For prior information call 271-5650 or
write 1036 Ontario Street, Stratford.
By JACK WILSON
I can go along, up to a
point, with the poet
Wordsworth’s statement
about the commercial world
being too much with us.
There’s partial agree
ment, too, with his criticiz
ing us for not being aware of
the ennobling powers of
nature in contrast with the
drab business of trade.
Moreover, I’ll admit that
for a long time I’ve liked the
sonnet in which Wordsworth
makes these remarks in
majestic language. But the
points of agreement and en
joyment have lately had a
battering. Specifically on
Sunday, 4 March, when the
Elimville Creek let go in its
annual spring flooding.
I can’t, unfortunately,
claim that I was thinking of
Wordsworth or poetry as the
tide rose. I was more in
volved in listening to the
hum of a sump pump with a
poor plumber’s ear. An oc
cupation at which I also
hoped against hearing a note
of failure in the hum to
signal a subsequent conver
sion of my basement into a
wading pool. Periodically, I
spent some time outside as
well, to watch the creek
level rise as night fell. •
Creek watching, by the
way, is one of the means by
which we in Elimville get a
solid reading on the ap
proach of spring. We don’t,
as some do, anticipate the
season of greenery and nest
building by the arrival of
robins or the upthrust of a
crocus. For us, winter’s end
is in sight when our worm of
the creek turns into a
bloated snake that strikes by
sluicing water and ice
across fields and roadways.
Bi^t to get back to Mr.
Wordsworth and his sonnet
about us not appreciating
the divine powers of nature.
In the poem, as you may
know, he says he’d willingly
give up worldly gods and in
terests for a belief in nature
gods; as did the primitive
country people of
generations ago. He even
goes so far as to hint praise
for country folk who clung to
beliefs of the kind. Which is
fine with me. Fine, that is,
until Wordsworth speculates
on the pleasure of thinking
of the sea-god Proteus tak
ing a rest from herding seals
by climbing out of the ocean
to sit on a rock. An earlier
form, I guess, of the modern
coffee-break.
Well, I didn’t see Proteus
doing any rock sitting during
the recent overflowing of
the Elimville Creek into my
little world of the country at
present. But I did see a
muskrat paddling in my
wife’s garden, which at mid
night resembled a lake.
There, glossily wet in
moonstruck .water, and ap
parently pleased at being
free of the creek’s surging
current, the muskrat used
wintering rose bushes as
navigation buoys for a
round-about journey of some
five minutes duration. Then
it left the flooded garden to
return to wherever it had
come from.
True, the sight of the
muskrat was a bit of a lift
from nature. A lift of the
kind I assume Mr.
Wordsworth was getting at
in his poetical musings of
over a century ago. But the
lift would have been greater
for me if, instead of a
resemblance to Proteus, the
muskrat had behaved as
Wordsworth has the sea-god
Triton perform in the same
poem. He has Trifon blowing
a horn, from the sound of
which-.the sea is raised or
calmed.
All of which leaves • me
wondering if Triton (provid
ed he's not now otherwise
engaged) might be in
terested in blowing his horn
in Elimville next spring.
Blowing it for the purpose of
keeping the creek down.
As I’ve said, nature’s fine,
and so is Mr. Wordsworth’s
poetry about it; up to a
point.
But muskrats in Elimville
gardens are an entirely
different matter. For all I
know they’re a warning that
next there’ll be beavers in
basements. Or, worse yet,
crocodiles basking in
crabgrass.
Voice problems at
GB school meeting
Norval Cheeseman said the
principal should be con
tacted.
Considerable discussion of
the closing of the school as a
result of inclement weather
took place with Cheeseman
saying his office made the
final decision.
However, he emphasised
it was the parents’ respon
sibility to send or not to send
their children to school.
Reeve Bob Sharen noted
that many of the concerns
which had been voiced
would have been brought up
at a home and school or
parent-teachers association
meeting. He said maybe it
was time that such an
organization be started in
the resort.
While Grand Bend
residents learned there were
no plans for the closing of
the school at a public
meeting Wednesday there
are a few problems which
should be looked into.
Bill Jennison said one of
the problems was the
purchasing of cigarettes by
senior students who would
distribute them to the
younger children.
He said another problem
was the open showing of
affection by older students
in front of other children.
There should be some
segregation of children by
age groups said Karen
Finch.
In both matters Lambton
county education director
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Smile!
(Politican addressing
crowd: “and to those who
say the cost of living is
spiraling, I say isn’t that bet
ter than going straight up.”)
The average married
couple has already spent
next year’s salary and hasn’t
paid this year’s bills.
Hi!
“Heart Month” in Canada
is now over and on behalf of
the Canadian Heart Fund,
Ontario Division, please
accept our heartfelt thanks
for your support during our
financial campaign.
Our objective this year
was $5,500,000 and although
all returns are not in, we are
quite hopeful that our ob
jective will be attained.
Without your willing co
operation in communicating
our needs to the public, the
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A SYRUP TASTER — Little Brother Robert Jay samples some
maple syrup offered by operator Carl Mills at the Jack Ford
sugar bush, near Dashwood Saturday. Members and friends
of the South Huron Big Brothers Association were included in
the tour. T-A photo
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