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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1974-06-26, Page 12PRESCRIPTION For Fast Friendly Service Phone or Mail Your Prescriptions to KEATING'S (Reisg) PHARMACY LTD. M. E. HOOVER, Phm.B, PHONE 527.1990 SEAFORN Be sure and attend the bl the LION'g PARK 4:00 — 7:30 Ilimbutgs, Ilotdogs, Pop and Coffee 13ittstie-111 13ilitin(tits :Aglit'44144$ tilfr tl 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 MUSSELS POST nrift. zit, 1974