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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-08-18, Page 10Picnic in Bluevale Pa'rk The Baby Band and Explorers of Bluevale United Church enjoyed a picnic in the Bluevale. Park on Wednesday, August 4th organized by Bluevale U.C.W. • United 4 conducted games and races for the children. Mrs. Ken Johnston and Mrs. Lloyd Wheeler were in charge of the. Junior group and Mrs. Alan Campbell and Mrs. Max Demeray of the seniors. Prior to the picnic the president, Mrs. Jack Nicholson, conducted a short business meeting. Plans were made to hold the bazaar on Oct. 29th at 3 P.M. The regional meeting was announced for St. Helen's on Oct. 6th at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Van Dyke as special speaker. The October meeting of Bluevale U.C.W. was changed to Oct. 11th because of the regional meeting. The Alma College School for Women is to be held Aug. 22nd - 25th with 24th the day of the one day school. A motion was made to pay expensei for the Bible School which had proved to be a great success. A gift of money is to be sent as a Christmas gift to the sponsored child in Korea. The children presented a signed card of thanks to Geo. Hetherington for his donation for a treat of dixie cups which were \served after a lunch of sandwiches, cookies and freshie prepared by 'the U.C.W. 1111111111111111111111111111111111 '76 MUSTANG' With low mileage '74 PLYMOUTH SATELLITE 4 door '74 ASTRA 4 speed Transmission with radio '73-MERCURY MONKAIM. 2 door hard top 8 automatic poRt steering & brakes - radio,- 2- '73 DODGE DART 4 door sedan, 6 automatic with radio '73 CHRYSLER 4 door hard top "72 CHEV IMPALA 2 &or hard top '72 PONTIAC VENTURA 6 cylinder '71 PONTIAC CATALINA 4 door hard top 1 71 FORD 1/2 TON '69 GMC 1/2 TON CRAWFORD MOTORS Wingham 357.380 11111111111111111111111111011111 macland MACLAND WALL SYSTEMS CONCRETE FORMING CONTRACTORS P.O. Box 130 Wingham, Ontario , CONCRETE WALLS BUNKER,SILOS HOUSE FOUNDATIONS, 357-3182 Most readers of this column are quite aware of my attitude toward the Montreal. Olympic Games. And I am sure that many of them have put me down as a spoil-sport, a wet blanket, a niggling critic of a glorious event. Not so, please. If you have read with-care my ferocious attacks on the Games, you'll have noticed that I wasn't knocking them, or the athletes. I am as red-blooded a Canadian as the next guy, and I groaned when the Canadians came last in the boat race, and I cheered when a Canadian scrambled to a, second or third or fourth. And I almost wept when one of our beautiful little gymnasts tottered and fell of, the bar. What I was smiting was the chauvinism, the hunger for power, the utter immorality that lay behind the acquisition of the Games by Montreal. Montreal needed those Games about as much'as I need an amputation of my right leg. And the results will be somewhat the same. The city will be crippled for half a century because it wanted to hold a two-week party for the whole world. Chauvinism. Hunger for power? Maybe that's the wrong phrase. More like a h unger for the limelight, or a yearning for some sort of immortality (maybe lasting 30 years?) on the part of the,arch-promoter, M. Drapeau. During the Games, many critics softened up quite a bit on Drapeau. Through no virtue of h is, the Games, wallowing in problems, had been scotch-taped together at the last minute by the government of Quebec, and the official opening was magnificent, veiling the fantastic debt His Worship had built up. Even hard-boiled reporters were suggesting we'd been a bit rough on Drapeau, that after all, he had had the vision, the tenacity, to pursue his dream, and that we were all cashing in on it. Afraid I don't go for that jazz. That's like saying that Napoleon, who bled France dry, physically and financially, was, after all, not a bad little chap, that he meant well, that he didn't really mean to lose half a million men in the retreat from Moscow, that his wife, Josephine, didn't understand him, and that his family was greedy. Nuts. He did it for La Gloire. And so did Drapeau. The major difference between them is that Napoleon and to face only the English, the Prussians, the Poles and the Russians. Drapeau *had to face the trade unions. Beaucoup formidable! Well, let's get back to the Games themselves, before I turn, puce, which is what I do every time I think of 72,000 people cheering athletes while the raw sewage flows out of Montreal into the St. Lawrence. All hail to the athletes! We may be greedy when it comes to making a buck - as witness the federal government's knee-jerk to China, with visions of big -wheat sales dancing in its puny head. But when it comes to winning Olympic medals' Canadians are Certainly among the least greedy nations in the world. We are so hospitable about letting other countries grab' the medals 'that it is almost embarrassing. And that's the way it should, be. The important thing about international games is - or should be - doing your absolute best. And that's what Canada's young repre- sentatives did.My heart, and I'm- sure yours, was right in there thumping away with them, whether they were finishing fourth or 14th. One of the things that really bugged me before and during the Olympics was the crassness of sports writers. Now, admitted- ly, 'this is a species not known for its sensitivity, but the crudeness this time was simply foo much. Canadian, sports writers, on the whole, are pale imitations of their U.S.counter- parts. Most of them are not, as they should be, extremely knoWledgeable about the sport they are writing on. They are far more interested in times, statistics and medals than they are in the human drama of the Games.. ' It's no wonder that Canadian athletes rapidly become disenchanted with the press. When an athlete is "up", even exceeding what he or she has ever done before, jock writers are dreaming about medals. When an athlete has a bad day ora bad race, the jocks subtly suggest that he or she has- "let Canada down." Every single and solitary athlete in the Games, Canadian or otherwise, did the very best he or she could do at the given moment. And that's what it's all about. After saying all that, I must admit the CBC did a splendid job of covering the Games. Their commentators were no more partisan than human nature would excuse, and they kept the focus on the atliletes, ) where it should be-. -How strange to read a'TV columnist, who was almost white-lipped with anger because the television commentators were not excoriating Canadian athletes who "did not live up to promise." What a jerk! Oh, well, it was a great party while it lasted. Now the caterers must be paid'. If you are driving along beside the St. Lawrence River next summer, and notice that the water is a rusty brown, .rather than blue, don't be alarmed.and don't think it is merely the usual" human excrement from Montreal. It is, but added to it is a healthy infusion of the blood of Montreal and Quebec taxpayers. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Montreal's games In Halifax Bill S niley, a high school veteran of the RCAF, he spent teacher whose column of several years in a German humorous observations on prisoner of war camp during Canadian life appears in this World War II. paper and more than 135 other Bill Smiley began his column weeklies, was honoured today by when he was publishing the paper the Canadian Community New- in Wiarton. Editors of other papers Association for the best column in a weekly newspaper. He was the first recipient of the George Cadogan Award. 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