HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1979-05-16, Page 10well as final interior re-con-
struction. This will enable
final re-decorating (paint,
wallpaper,, furniture) to take
place in the closing months
of 1979.
The Board ' for the Van
Egmond Foundation will
meet next week to determine
whether funds are available
to supplement the summer
project with an additional
worker.
Students seeking employ-
ment such as mentioned
should register directly with
the Canada Manpower Stu-
dent Employment Office in
Goderich who will make the
necessary referrals.
The Chairman has also
been advised that the Huron
County B oard of Education
will assign two student wor-
kers to the Van Egmond
project for a four-week per-
iod begimiing in min-June.
The students will develop
curriculum resource pack-
ages for Huron County
schools. The topics included
will be related to the Van
Egmond House as well as
local history from Seaforth
and Egmondyille area. The
resource packages will then
be made available to teach-
ers throughout the County as
a means of identifying local
resources to supplement text
book topics in Canadian
History.
The summer months pro-
mise to be a busy time at the
Van Egmond site. As well as
meeting some summer em-
ployment needs for area
young people, the restoration
project should take a signifi-
cant step towards completion.
It is understood that public
fund-raising plans will be
announced in the next two
weeks.
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the Kitchener-Waterloo Art
Gallery.
Evlyn Payton is a Toronto
artist who has a distinctive
style, at times quite sculpt-
ural. Her medium is fre-
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applies with various knives
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Van Egmond house seeks
student summer employee
For quite a while, I counted myself
among that approximately 3 per cent of
Canadian voters who were "undecided."
From the time he was chosen leader and
elected 11 years ago, I have disliked Pierre
Trudeau. Perhaps distrusted would be a
better word.
As a Canadian I was used to good, dull,
solid prime ministers like Mike Pearson, a
genial, open , internationally known
diplomat; "Uncle Louis" St. Laurent, a
corporate lawyer respected by men of all
parties; John Diefenbaker, a criminal
lawyer with great experience in
parliament.
This new guy, Trudeau, was a little too
good to be true. A millionaire's son who
had never really proved himself in business
law, (his profession) or the arts. He had no
experience in parliament. He had switched
ideals too easily, from fitebrand to national
pacifier.
Oh, I could understand the
Trudeanumania. With his casual clothes,
his boutonniere, and his exotic holdiays, he
was a regular breath of fresh air to
Canadians, accustomed to stodginess at
the top.
He was photogenic, articulate, and
obviously a man with a considerable
intellect.
He has bags of charm, with the Gallic
shrug, the lifted eyebrow. In his national
television speeches, he was a winner, most
persuasive.
When he married the lovely Margaret
Sinclair, the fairy tale seemed complete,
only outdone by the fact that they had three.
ch ldren, bang, bang, bang, two of them
born on Christmas Day. It would take a
distinguished writer of soap opera to come
up with a better script.,
Yet all the time I didn't trust him. Too
smooth, even slippery, when it came to a
forthright statement about his views or the
country. At first I thought we might just
have a statesman, but it wasn't long before
he was a pure poltiician to the heels.
My wife was sore at me for what she
considered my jaundiced • view of Prince
Charming. Just as she was sore at me
because I wasn't altogether sold on John F.
Kennedy ten years earlier, another guy
who had ridden to office on a few million
dollars, a barrel of ambition, and charm to
burn.
My jaundice was justified. Since
Trudeau took over, Canada has slipped
steadily into a stagflation that has made a
hell of a lot of other Canadians just as
jaundiced. He refused to consider wage
and price controls. A year later he switched
and stole the idea from the Tories, too late.
His government had done virtually
nothing about: foreign companies buying
Canada; development of the country;
New exhibits
The Gallery/Stratford is
pleased to announce the
opening of the exhibition
Tony Urquhart, Twenty-five
Years: Retrospective. The
show is a selected survey of
painting, drawing and sculp-
tural constructions from the
artist's student days and the
beginning of his professional
career to the present. Urqu-
hart considers himself to be
primarily a landscape artist,
yet he brings to the Canadian
landscape tradition the com-
bined influences of North
American Abstract Expres-
sionism, European Baroque
and Rococo church archi-
tecture, and French nine-
teenth century ornament-
ation and etching styles. His
range of subject and expres-
sion is wide and he is
deservedly one of Canada's
most renowned artists. He is
presently the Chairman of
the Department of Fine Arts
at the University of Water-
loo. The show is accomp-
anied by a catalogue and is
unemployment; pollution and a hundred
other issues of concern. There was no bold
leadership of. Canadian industry,
commerce, science. There was a knuckling-
under to militant labour. There was the
panicky War Measures Act in Quebec.
There was a steady loss of confidence in
Canada on the international level.
When Joe Clark was chosen leader of the
Tories, taking the place of a much superior
man, Robert Stanfield, at least I had. some
hope. He was young, seemed vigorous,
and must have something going for him,
even though barely more than half the Tory
delegates wanted him, or didn't want
Claude Wagner.
As the months have passed, my hopes
have withered. Clark seems just the
opposite fo. Trudeau. Not smooth, but
awkward. Not intellectual, though hard
plugging at his homework. Trying to
appear forceful in the televised House of
Commons, but a finger-wagging, jowl- •
shaking, pale effigy of old John Diefen-
baker at his best.
There'll be no bold leadership by this
guy, either, if he wins. He makes a
state ment then waffles. He dodges a
telev ision confrontation with Trudeau,
and I don't blame him. He throws out a
huge bribe to the middle-class voter with
his mortgage interest scheme.
He seems a decent enough chap, as
honest as a politician can be, but he
appears more like a puppet, . gyrating
awkwardly to the strings pulled by his
advisors, than a real human being. He
seems to have virtually no sense of
humour, no vision of Canada; nothing but
an enormous desire to become prime
minister.
Clark has never really accomplished
anything outside of politics. He was a
hardworking and earnest, but un-
distinguished member of parliament.
That's why he got the "Joe Who?" label
after he wiggled into the leadership.
What a choice! An aging playboy who
has allowed Canada's national debt, and
Canada's government, swell to epic pro-
portions until' Ottawa appears a hugh,
complacent blood-sucker drawing the life
out of the rest of the country. And a hick
from High River whose main motive seems
to be pure political hunger for power. (No
aspersions on High River, whose editor
kept me up until 4 a.m. one morning in a
great intellectual debate).
Where to go? I'm lurching to the left,
and I wouldn't be surprised if many joined
me. I'm no socialist, but Broadbent at least.
isn't making an ass of himself, has some
concrete ideas. We have a good man in our.
riding, and this time going to vote for
the man.
The Miniotry of Culture &
Recreation has agreed to
provide up to $1,430 for a 13
week summer project at the
Van Egmond House begin-
ning in June. One student
will be hired under the MCR
Experience '79 programme,
to work under the direction of
the Van Egmond Foundation
in consultation with' Minis-
try officials.
The work scheduled is
related to the final stages of
the interior restoration pro-
ject. It includes design stud-
ies for the interior plans as
well as specific proposals for
interpretive displays about
the Van Egmond family and
the opening of the Huron
Tract
In addition, it is the intent
of the project to establish
formal liaison with the Sea-
forth LACAC with the aim of
preparing a heritage pamp-
hlet to meet the needs of
both. the' Van Egmond Foun-
dation and the LACAC.
The Experience 79 project
will likely coincide with
phase two of the building
re-construction program
which involves the installa-
tion of hard services (plum-
bing, heating, electrical( as
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portraits of birds and has
spent some time concentrat-
ing on silk screen printing
combined with photography,
using a special process cam-
era. The choice of media is
the result of careful plan-
ning.
These exhibtions continue
until May 27, 1979.
10 — THE BRUSSELS POST, MAY 16, 1979
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By Bill Smiley
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