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Christmas Area wedding
THE BRUSSELS POST, DECEMBER 6, 1978 — 17
simple
The holiday season is on
the doorstep. Food shopping
for the festivities needn't be
overwhelming. But it does
require thoughtful planning
for entertaining family and
friends.
Keep it simple' are the
three words of advice from
the foods and nutrition
specialists at the Home
Economics. Branch, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food.
Christmas preparations
were more elaborate in the
pat. But then, there were lots
of helping hands! Holiday
meals today are more casual.
Yet there is still plenty of
acitivity. And that is why
planning is so important.
Now that you have search-
ed and finally found your
traditional family recipes,
it's time to decide which you
want to use so you can plan
accordingly.
It then becomes an easy
matter to plan what is to be
served, when to do the
shopping, how to prepare the
goodies and to whom they
will be served. The why is
easy—to share the hospital-
ity and warmth that comes
with the season.
Christmas is probably
unsurpassed in providing a
vast array of foods. While we
really don't want to be
reminded of calories this
time of year, why not plan to
put out a bowl of fruit as a
refreshing alternative to rich
desserts..
CASEY—CARDIFF
Carol Anne Casey & John Allen Cardiff were united in
marriage, Saturday, October 28 at the home of Allan's
parents, Jack and Audrey Cardiff at R.R.5, Brussels. The
Rev. Eric Le Drew officiated. The bride is the daughter of
Lillian and Owen Cartis of Toronto. The matron of honour
was Mrs. Lynne McKay and best man Ralph Monaghan.
Ringbearer was Arin Curtis; ushers Stewart and Rob
• Cardiff. Solist was Linda Durham and pianist Karen
Cardiff. Dinner was served at the Rrussels United Church.
rile440
Chap wants to do a television shortie
about me. I hae me doots about agreeing.
I have deep suspicions about that particular
medium, and a very low regard for the vast
majority engaged in its machinations.
First of all, TV is one of the most
pernicious influences on the imaginations
and vocabularies of the young, to whom I am
trying to teach the subtleties and beauties
and clarities of the English language.
There is almost nothing to stretch the
mind, to titillate the senses, to improve the
language. Most television drama is one-
dimensional. It's laid out flatly before you.
The language is brutalized. Suspense is
childish. Acting is insensitive.
And if, once in a blue moon, there is an
intelligent, supsenseful, sensitive and
imaginative piece of work on the screen, the
mood is constantly shattered by noisy beer
ads, or distasteful commercials about ring
around the collar or underarm deodorant..
It's a pity. Television, in the right hands,
could become the most warming, enlighten-
ing, enlarging experience in the lives of
many people, aside from their personal
experience with other human beings.
But 90 per cent of it is garbage, aimed at
the intelligence of a slow- six-year-old. The
tinny, artificial "applause." The ever-
increasing sexual innuendo. The constant
shouting of so-called comedians. The dull
and derivative dance routines. The blatting
and snarling of rock groups. And perhaps
worst of all, those insane, greedy game
shows. It is literal fact that I can scarce
refrain fromthrowing up when I come across
one of those, with the bellowing master of
ceremonies, the fawning of contestants, and
the idiotic audiences.
You know, when television began, it had a
good many flaws, but most of them were
technical. At the same time it had a vitality
and reality that swept all before them.
Drama was done live, and we had such
great plays as Padd Chayefsky's Marty.
Compare that reality and pathos with the
slobbering, sugar-encrusted stuff like The
Waltons. Compare shouting, leering Lav-
erne and Shirley, or the late unlamented
Maude with the great comics of the early
days: 'A rt Carney and Jackie Gleason, Sid
Ceasar and Imogene Coca. You can't. There
is no comparison.
Perhaps it's because the big poobahs of
television have treated their massive audi-
ences with more contempt than any ,other
medium has ever, done, including' Holly-
wood of the big studios.
And those appearing on television re-
spond like fawning puppets. 1-1 ockey players
get into needless fights so that they can
display the big macho on the screen.
Football players don't just score a touch-
down any. more, and leave it at that. They do
a dance, or they bounce the ball hard off the
ground and run around with their arms up in
self-congratulation.
Learned and intelligent professors allow
themselves to be made ridiculous by
rhetorical questions, from ignorant inter-
viewers. Politicians allow themselves to be
chivvied by churlish reporters, just to get
their images on the boob tube.
Talented people in shoe business will
appear on the screen with an ape or an
alligator, and allow themselves to be
insulted by a late-night-show MC, just to get
in the picture.
Only very occasionally does someone with
great powers of articulation and a certain
inborn arrogance, someone, like Malcolm
Muggeridge, manage to break through the
banality of the typical television interviewer.
Only rarely does an interviewer, someone
like Patrick. Watson, break through the
carefully guarded porridge of the inter-
viewee.
With very few exceptions does a news
reporter depart from a delivery as monot-
onous as a metronome. The National,
Canada's 11 o'clock news, 11:30 in Newfie,
is about as exciting as a funeral service. We
had smarmy Lloyd Robertson with the oiled
tonsils, reading the news as though it were
the phone book. Thenwe had contemptuous
Peter. Kent, who gave the impression that he
was doing us a favour. These days we have
dull old solid, stolid George MacLean, who
delivers the news as though it were a
warmed-over pot-roast. Which it is, on most
occasions.
In short, TV is dull, dull, dull. I have great
sympathy for two groups in our society. 0 ne
is the oldsters and shut-ins, who have so
little left in their lives, and rely on television
for a diversion, something to take the mind
away from the aches and pains and the
loneliness. What they get is a combination of
the utmost pap and crap that only a sadist
could devise: cheap, ancient, Grade C
movies; soap operas; sickening game shows.
And the other group that gets my
sympathy is young children. With a few
exceptions, such as Sesame Street, all they
have to watch is pictorial pablum, great,
uplifting epics . like The Flintstones, or
violent and bloody movies. What a pity,
when the medium could educate their
minds, stir their senses with color and
music, and send their imaginations soaring.
Andy Warhol, a New York pop artist, said
everyone eventually will be a celebrity for
fifteen minutes.
If that's the case, include me out. The TV
chap told me it would take only two hours of
my time to make a two minute epic about me
and my column. I have no particular desire
to look like a turkey for two minutes and
spend the next two days feeling like one.
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
A TV show about me??
Ontario asked to check land ownership
If You're intheRed for Christmas...
Shop in
And I , N
By Adrian Vos
The properties Committee
fo the Ontario Federation of
Agriclture expressed their'
concern about a reported
increase of foreign owner-
ship of farmland in Ontario,
by passing a resolution
asking the Ontario Govern-
ment to implement "without
delay" an inventory of
foreign ownership.
The OFA also wants to
know the farmland holdings
of "non-farm Candian
corporations".
Without dissent it was
agreed that it may be
necessary to regulate non -
resident ownership.
Farmers also wanted to be
sure when they trade in their
old implement, that in case
of breakdown, a Spare
implement will be available
to continue operations. •
The new tubeless tires on
tractors and self-propelled
machinery sometimes cause '
be pushed away from the
rim, resulting in a flat tire.
Come & enjoy the Brussels Vs,
Santa Claus Pa-rade this
Sat. Dec. 9 & Shop at
Ray kElelen'f Family' Centre
& SAVE 1 0 %
on all Sweaters sat.o,ily
,We will be open every Minh till Xmas
& Dee. 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22 till 9 p.m.
Ray 4S4, Helen's
Fathily Centre •
887,6671 Member Brussels
problems. When a sharp turn
is necessary the tire tends to
`p ' Participating Blyth merchants have tickets that will allow
you to enter the Double Your Money Draw. Draws will be
made every Saturday until Christmas, at the Memorial Hall
at 3:00 p.m. by the entertaining Jarries I:awrie.
You don't have-to be
on hand to win
But if you are, and your ticket is drawn you can double your
money by picking II up before 4 p.m.
"Participati ng businesses are:
* Triple K * Kitchen Cupboard
Sparlings Propane * Voddens Grocery * Blyth Meat Market
* Gores Hardware * Wilsons Health and Gift Centre
* Freer's Hardware Village Restaurant
* Mad ills Blyth Inn
Blyth Standard
* George of Brussels Howson & HOwsten,
Eillotis Insurance Mason Bailey
Wallace Turkey " YOUngbluta Sunoco
Hornms Car SaleS and Garage Griffith BP
Rodfeatds Construction Cheittetton's Bank of Commerce Josling Bros.
Baintons Original Old Mill * Hantel & Grote( filyik Veterinary Blyth Printing
* Veils Fashion Fare The Tanner Burkholder Auto Body Campbell Transport
Dr. Mowbray * B.J Fabrics
GET YOUR TICKETS WITH A'5 PURCHASE AT THESE STORES * •
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Draws w111 be made every Saturday until Christmas,
at the Memorial' Hall at 3!00
HOURS
Open every Wednesday in Deeernbee
Open till Nine feiii Dec. 15 " to Sat. 21 indotive