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(By Karl Schuessler)
Mis 24 excited three and four-year-old
children. Add four even more excited lambs.
Let them all run loose for an hour. And What
,do ‘you get?
B dlam? Frolic? Fun? Chaos? Lambie pies?
Raisin piesffheWorks? Water works?
You'd expe'tit a bit of each. And you're
right.
I know. I tagged along the, day the lambs,
went to school.
Those lambs didn't follow Mary to school
that day. They were driven. In high style. In
the back of the car.
And the driver-sotheone like Sharon.
Rau--doesn't mind transporting lambs to
school. She likes lambs, those little wooly
lambs. And she likes' other kinds of land's;
too. She often brings her own two to nursery
school in the United 'Church in Clinton each
week.
But the day she drove the four wooly lambs
to school was different. She had to admit. She
got up earlier than usual that morning.She
drove the extra miles to her father's 'fartri.
And gathered up the four lambs she'd picked
out days before from her father's flock.
Now she piled up all seven in the car.
Herself: Her two children. And the four
lambs.
And when just the right time came for the
nursery school surptise that morning, Sharon
Went out to the car, and brOught in--one by
one in her arms the lambs.
And the children gathered all around. They
felt the lambs.They petted them: Hugged
them. Held them. Carried them. One got a
ride in a wagon. One played house: One
kicked up its heeIS--performing one of those
famous lamb jumps when sheep spring and
jump over fences that aren't even there.
The lambs didn't seem to mind. Oh, they
bleated and ba-a-ed. And if one escaped tiny
fingers, it didn't run far. It always came back
to the others. Lambs, I learned that morning,
do like to stick together.
Each child hdd his turn. At holding and
feeling. 5 'roking and petting. At looking
inside and seeing the large bottom milk teeth.
hooves.
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long tails and perky ears. Cloven
This was better than any African safari-this
new idea in zoo .s where the animals run free
and you drive your car through the bush and
look for animals. But there you don't touch.
You wouldn't want to touch in' most casesl
But being able to touch the lambs is
important to Sharon. She doesn't like the idea
of children standing in' lines and looking at
lambs in boxes or cages .L ambs are animals to
feel and touch and' smell. To explore.
She wants to give the children direct contact
experience." To her that makes all the
difference in the world.
And it is different. Nursery school teachers
rtinning around with broom and dust pan.
Sweeping up lamb raisins as fast as they,
appear. And wiping up water spills whenever
they occur.
Thank heavens for paper towels and cement
floors in Church basements used tor nursery
schools. Maybe that's the only place-the ones
with cement floorS--where lambs can go to
school.
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ONTARIO 'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30th, 1975
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros.Publishers, Limited.
Evelyn Ketthedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association.
Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year, Others
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$8.00 a year, Single CopieS 15 cents each.
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..../LAJLATION
Meeting our deadline
We hate to harp away on the same old subject, but
our deadlines force us to. We all agree that a
newspaper is much more interesting to its readers
when the news in it is up to date, right?
We have a problem getting the latest news in our
editions of the Brussels Post each week, because the
Post goes to press on Tuesday. Although, it is dated
Wednesday, and is mailed out Wednesday morning
to our subscribers, the actual printing is done
Tuesday night.
Because most stores in Brussels are closed' on
Monday we find that the heaviest flow of information
for the paper comes into our office on Tuesday
morning. We are very pleased to receive and print all
this news, but we would be even happier, if we-bould
get it earlier in the week.
It becomes increasingly difficult to type, layout on
pages and shoot all the material that goes into a
paper of about 16 pages in one day. From the time
the bulk of the copy for the Post is picked up Tuesday
at noon, we actually have only the afternoon to make
sure that the news which is brought into our office
Tuesday morning, gets into print. -
We'd like to ask the co-operation of everyone who
supplies news to the.Post so that we can make extra
certain that all the news gets into the paper during
the week in which it happens. Our' office is open all
day Monday and we'd like to get as much news as
possible in by Monday afternoon.
If a meeting that you want press coverage of
happens on Wednesday night, please write it up and
bring it into our office on Thursday---don't wait ,until
Tuesday morning. News can even be brought to our
office over the weekend. There is a mail slot in the
front door that is there so that news can be dropped
off even when the office is closed.
The more news we can get before the mad rush of
Tuesday morning,. the easier it is for all of us. You
get a better, more up-to-date paper. We have the
time to treat the news carefully .and to give it the
emphasis, headline and poiltion in the paper which it
deserves.
Some Tuesdays it feels as if we are starting from
scratch at 2 in the afternoon to put a paper together
that must be ready for the printer about three hours
:ater. And some Weeks it shows.
We'd like to keep the Brussels Post a high quality,
award winning newspaper; that really tells people
what's going on in' the community.
Will you help us by getting the news to our office
right after 'it happens, and by Monday afternoon if
it's at all possible?
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