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Ghana men visit in .1-1u.!lett as
Canadian Crossroads. volunteers
Canadian Crossroads has
become a two-way street, Not ,
only are young Canadians volun- t
teering to go to work on projects'
in Africa, India and the West
Indies but now young people from
those countries are in a reverse
flow program to Canada.
This year 74 volunteers from.
Canada have volunteered for
Canadian Crossroads projects in
various countries and 13 volun-
teers from overseas are here in
Canada.
Margie Whyte of R,R.2,
Seaforth, who spent the summer
of 1972 in the Phillipines, is now
hosting two young men from
Ghana at the family farm north-
west of Seaforth..
Michael Dzendza, 23, of Peki.
Ghana and Samuel. Allotey, 30, of
Accra while participating in a
craft course in the Puppet
Division of the Arts Countil in
Ghana, accepted an invitation to
spend four months in Canada.
Tom Donovan, London, assist-
ant director of Canadian Cross-
roads Intemational, channelled
them to the Whyte farm after
receiving the offer for guests from
Margie Whyte.
Michael is still a student,
completing a course in advanced
science and will return to school
when he goes back to Ghana in
mid September. He hopes to be a
mechanical engineer.
Sam, who was born in Accra,
the capital of Ghana, was an
electrician but was a produce
examiner for cocoa prior to
leaving for Canada. He said that
cocoa is the backbone agricultural
product in Ghana. To ensure that
no inferior cocoa is exported to
the world market and that the
quality is maintained, there are
produce examiners,
Sam plans to work to become
an electrical. engineer when he
returns to Ghana and have his :
own workshop,
Mike and Sam have found the
weather rather cold and damp
since their arrival on May 22 as
The week of July 8 to 12 they
Mr. Vince Elliott, naturalist
and teacher at Exeter High School
went with our class of 36 pupils.
and Mrs. Huether to the bush last
we...k. We saw lots of Groundhog
holes, a creek, a frog, fish,
Trillium, poison berries, red with.
black dots or white with black
dots, 'an old truck, a wildstraw-
berry, a honey plant, a burdock.
He taught us about the maple
leaf and wild ginger. He let us.
taste it and it tasted like pepper
and no one hardly likes pepper. I
do not like the ginger. I am sure
that the rest of the class didn't
like it either.
We played a little game. Mr.
Elliott put some of us at a plant or
a tree and when the rest of us
went by we would say the name of
the plant or tree and then it
started to rain. Mr. Scott, our
principal, said that the bush was
the safest place to stay in a storm.
When it stopped raining, we went
back to schooland it was recess.
We got wet. When we came back
some of us girls changed into our
short's. I think everyone, enjoyed
the walk to the woods. Ted Cowan
wrote a letter to Mr. Elliott to
they are used to temperatures of
80 to 90 degrees, with June and.
July the wet season, and the rest
of the year hot and dry,
—They are spending their days
travelling b various points of
interest in Ontario, and doing
chores around the farm. They
remarked on the smiling friendly
faces they see everywhere in
Ontario.
thank him for the 'nice day'. Mr.
Elliott also said he would take us
out again' in the fall when the
leaves are changing colour and
the nuts are falling. I hope we can
go.
REBECCA NOLAN
Rebecca Nolan, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Nolan of Seaforth
graduated from St. Joseph's
Regional School of Nursing,
London, Ontario on June 21st.
She is a graduate of S.D.H.S.
will be leaders at a Bible School at
Londesboro United Church.
From. July 14 to August 18 they
are to be counsellors at Camp
Menesetung on the shores of
Lake Heron north of Goderich.
The camp is owned by the Huron
Petty Presbytery of the United
Church of Canada. Miss Whyte is.
the 1974 camp director,
Sam and Mike enjoy travelling,
music, horseback riding, Bible
reading, crafts, and meeting
people. Both are from large
families, and both have fathers
with two wives who live in
separate houses with their
children. Their fathers decide
each day where they will eat and
sleep. Both Mike and. Sam agreed
when they marry they only plan to
do it once.
RIMER
MRS. PAUL RAS
At South Waterloo
Hospital, Cambridge, c, J une 14, 1974, Velma
Hastings of c
(Hespeler) in her 60th
Beloved wife of Paul
dear mother of Faeona
Ross) and Freneida (Mr.
Mugford) of ea
(Hespeler) and Delvin a
Also survived by two
Ross of Brussels and D
Kitchener and two gran
Mrs. Hastings was
Morris. Twp. the daughte
late Frank and Rachel
She was a member of St
United Church and ii
Rebekah Lodge, and the A
to the Canadian
Hespeler.
Funeral was held Mandy
the Barthel-Stager funeral(
Interment followed in N16
Gardens, Hespeler,
Brussels Public School
Pl'IC-NA
octlIAIZOYALAIIRES.
DRUM and BUGLE CORPS
Coming to Brussels on
SATURDAY, EVENING, JULY 13, 1974
THE ROYALAIRES ARE:
---10 Times Canadian Senior Champion Winners
— 5 Times Ontario Senior Champion Winner
— Rated in Top 10 in North America
Hear Them Play Such Songs as:
— Live and Let Die
— Bridge Over Troubled Water
— One Fine Morning
— 0 Happy Day and many more
THE ROYALAIRES will parade through Brussels to the Ball Park, where they
will present their famous marching and maneuvering fancy drill.
COME, SEE and HEAR Canada's most famous drum corps since 1932 play in
Brussels, on JULY 13th.
Presented by Sta.Rite Dairy Systems of Brussels and Guelph, Ontario).
BALL GAME between
Optimist & Lions Club
Vite haven't got the names for the
teams yet but understand they are
to be unusual in dress as well as play
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