The Brussels Post, 1978-01-11, Page 10will become an intensive
recreation area centred around
camping and day-use activities.
Partial facilities will be available
during the off-season.'.
The park has 200 campsites as
well as day-use facilities but a
hardwood-covered bluff which
drops sharply to a narrow sand
and pebble beach and a natural
landscape of steep-sided ravines
will be preserved as an environ-
mentally fragile area.
In keeping with the park's rural
setting, a renovated barn will be
turned into a visitor centre for
interpretive and recreational
activities. Controlled
snowmobiling and hiinting will be'
permitted within the, park.
A number of proposed
improvements detailed in the
master plan originated from
suggestions made by interested
individuals .and groups at
previously held public meetings.
"We realize that recreational
needs and visitor patterns have
changed over the years," Mr.
Miller said. "The plan evaluates
the park's existing facilities while
recognizing the environmentally
Sensitive areas needing
protection."
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Established 1877
H
"Focus on Living", the 4-H
homemaking project with variety
plus, will be offered in Huron
County this spring.
Open to all young people'ages
12-26, whether they live on the
farm or in town, this project gives
participants an opportunity to
explore the meaning of the 4-H
pledge and develop ways for
following its guidelines.
Quilting appears for the first
time in a 4-H project. All
members will learn to make a
sample of pieced quilting by
hand. Seniors can explore the art
of machine quilting to make
placemats, hand bags or other
articles. Members may also knit
or croc t• an' article of their
choice. :Lead#s will be respon-
sible for" teaching quilting but
members wishing to learn how to
knit or crochet can rely on friends,
parents or grandparents.
Outings and guest speakers
will be quite in order. For
example, meeting five can be'
scheduled any time during the
project and provides the
opportunity to go hiking or
trailing. or visiting a wildlife or
conservation area--anything to do
with our`environment and natural
resources.
Meeting six deals withsafety so
it might be the time to have a
policeman or St. John's
Ambulance person come to a club
meeting to discuss this topic.
Leaders' Training Schools will
be held as follows: Exeter United
Church, Exeter, Monday &
Tuesday, January 16 and 17,
1978; Wesley-Willis United'
Church, Clinton, Thursday &
Friday, January 19 and 20, 1978;
Gorrie United Church, Gorrie;
Tuesday & Wednesday, January
24 and 25, 1978; Salvation Army
Hall, Wingham, Thursday &
Friday, January 26 and 27, 1978;
First Presbyterian Church,
Seaforth, Monday & Tuesday,
January 30 and 31, 1978; Blyth
United Church, Blyth,-
Wednesday & Thursday,
February 1 and 2, 1978; special
for those who cannot attend week
days because of work or school...;,
Wesley-Willis'United Church,
Clinton, Saturday, January 14
and. Saturday January 21, 1978.
All training schools will be held'
from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. both
days.
Additional details regarding
the program are available from
the Ministry of Agriculture and
Food. If you want to volunteer
your services as a leader or
sponsor or if you are interested in
joining as a member, your
questions can be answered by
Home Economists, Grace Bird
and Bea McClenaghan, telephone
482-3428 or Zenith 7-2800.
Bonnie I .:Men's &ladies'
,Hair Styling
OPEN
Tuesday to Saturday noon
and, Wednesday Evenings
Turnberry Street next. to-Texan Grill
Phone 887-9237
10-THE BRUSSELS POST, JANUARY 11, 1978
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
,Cards are full of news
4-H to learn.
about quilting
for first time.
It takes a few weeks for all the Christmas
events to settle down and fade away in the
new year. And I like this lull that sets in after
the high holidays. You have al little time to
think as you take down the Christmas lights
outsidI2 and • throw out the Christmas tree..
I always take a second look at the Christmas
cards, too. Seems as if I give them 'a quick
glance every day as they come in, but never a
thorough going over.
You see, a lot of our Christmas cards aren't
just the pretty picture and greeting kind. Most
of our relatives live far, far away and there's
usually a note or letter inside. We find out all
about the mini-history of each family for the
year.
That's one of the good things about
Christmas. You have to sit down and write
' your relatives. There's no other time of the
year that lays the obligatiOn on you like
Christmas.
As I looked through the cards this year for a
second time, I noticed several things.
There weren't as many cards this year.
Maybe it was the postal strike threat. Or the
high cost of cards. The' high cost of mailing.
Maybe people were extra busy this year.
Several of my most punctual relatives sent late
Christmas cards this year.
Or maybe I'm just not using the right X
brand of deodorant. But I'd rather like to think
people are diverting their Christmas card
money to other more notable and worthy
causes. Something like the Chinese Presby-
terian Church where I preach every few
nionths.
No, silly, I don't preach Chinese. This is the
Eniglish speaking section of that downtown
Toronto church.
Those church members decided to send
their Christmas greetings to one another on a
big ,bulletin board posted up at the church.
One"big card did it all. Each family put one
card for all the other families at the church.
And the money they saved that way,they gave
to some other church cause.
Now, I know. This. does have a few
problems. .All of the people you send
Christmas cards to, don't necessarily go to the
same church you do. But it's a thought.
Point FaIrms Provincial Park,
well-known to Goderich and area
residents since it, was established
in 1964, will undergo further
improvements as outlined in a
master plan which has been
released by Natural Resources
Minister Frank S. Miller.
The 236-hectare (580-acre)
provincial park is 6 km. (three
miles) north of Goderich on Lake
Huron and contains the site of the
old Point Fairm Hotel, a popular
summer resort for city families
during the late 1800s. The park, ;
to be fully operational between
mid-May and , mid-September, 1
Back to my own Christmas cards and my
letter writing relatives. I got a few shocks this
year. I got so I dreaded to open up the cards.
The bad news was shocking. My relatives are
dying one by one. And not necessarily the
older ones. •
True. They're not the real close ones, but
they're the great ones that stand on the
periphery of the family and make something
out of us. Like my sister-in-law's father. A
swell guy. Chicago never had a better street
car conductor--or a funnier one either. He died
in October.
Then there was my cousin's husband. A
perfect specimen of businessman, husband
and rather. A heart attack .Good heavens! That
fellow,was my age. I couldn't believe it. Death
is coming to my own generation. And I'm
hearing about it all for the first time at
Christmas time.
Of course, I can't tell my relatives to stay all
this bad news. To wait until a more convenient
season. A sad season. Say, wait until Lent or
Good 'Friday, if they're going to delay writing
me the news and not tell me until Christmas
card time.
Christmas cards can bring other expected
news; too, among the living. My aunt Agnes,
aged 85, is still going strong in Nebraska.
Another sister-in-law's mother is doing
likewise in Missouri.
I learned my sister's going into the hospital
for an operation. And my brother's kids are
making ,5ome headlines on the Minneapolis
stage. And I heard once again how my wife's
Aunt Hazel hates these northern winters. She
always writes this weather is for the birds.
And then she types BRRRRRR over every
news paper clipping she sends of snowy
weather. I could make a scrapbook of Aunt
Hazel's winter weather scenes and BRRRRRR
written on top. I heard once again how she'd
dearly love to go to Florida, but she has no one
to babysit her house in Michigan.
It's no wonder I dread and love Christmas'
cards all at the same time. They're full of good
news and, bad news. Old news and new news.
Different news and same news. And it's no
wonder it takes me at least three weeks after
Christmas to' digest and comprehend it all.
Improvements planned
for Point. Farms Park
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