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Times-Advocate, 1980-03-26, Page 33Timo-Aclocute Mar41126 190 tint 7A, A. N.V I 1 QUESTION - WHAT DO ALL OF US HAVE IN COMMON WITH THE PEOPLE IN THESE PHOTOGRAPHS? ANSWER CANCER COULD STRIKE ANY ONE OF US AT ANY TIME. 235-0660 450 Main St. S. Main Street 235-1570 PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY WHEN A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE EXETER & AREA CANCER SOC, ASKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Aid the Cancer Society and see the latest fashions at FLOWERS AVAILABLE ON EXETER'S MAIN ST. AND THE CENTRE MALL Only $2.00 Courtesy of ion Veri per bunch (All Proceeds To Canadian Cancer Society) Sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. A professional show of interest to men and women presented by' Merry Rags. The commentator will be CBC anuouncer Jan Tennant. Tues., April 29 SOUTH HURON REC CENTRE Tickets are available now from: RSO Sports Den, Mrs. Melba Ecker and Victoria & Grey Trust, Exeter. Merry Rags and Harwood Drugs in Grand Bend and at William's Hair Styl- ing in Henson. THIS MESSAGE SPONSORED BY THE PUBLIC SPIRITED BUSINESSES LISTED BELOW. gg The First Canadian Bank Bank Of Montreal 460 MAIN Si A EXETER PHONE CheV. tekti. exeter 236.0860 AUTO SALES CIE DASHWOOD INDUSTRIES LIMITED CENTRALIA THCAPINK OF NOVA SCOTIA • 374 MAIN ST. S., EXETER Telephone 23$-1142 Home Of The Northlander 165 Thames E. 235-1530 "dew a Funeral Home Funeral Directors try. Armstrong arid Bob Fletcher RALPH GENTTNER FUELS Better Farming $terts At CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE Exeter, Ontario, Tel: 235-1050 JACK & MARG'S TINA STATION Main St. N. 235-2444 compliments of ROYAL BANK serving Agriculture WHITING'S WAREHOUSE *Furniture • Appliances 40 Carpeting Mdin St., Exeter 235.1944 I3EV MORGAN INSURANCE AGENCY LTD. 238 Main St. 235-2544 SWAIN SERVICE CENTRE Tractors Equipment EXETER BOWLING LANES 20 Sanders St. W. 235.27+11 Fletisall 262.2712 fl eL 235-0640 EXETER 235.2200 Exeter, Ontario (519) 235.2111 The Huron Country playhouse in Grand Bend has appointed Heather Redick of Zurich to the position Of Publicity Director, General Manager, Marc Quinn said he was very pleased to locate someone Heather Redick Playhouse names ,pupildirector icity with her experience and enthusiasm. Mrs. Redick haS over ten yearn business experience, For the past five, she was closely associated with the graphic design and ad- vertising industry, in the capacity of Productien Manager, and more recently, Account xecutive, with. Agripress Canada Liitnited of Hensall, At Huron. Country Playhouse Mrs. Redick will be responsible for all publicity and. media ,publie relations for the entire program presented by the theatre,. The recently an- nounced 1980 season includes four popular comedies, a large scale musical production, .a film series, childrens programmes, and other major events, Play receives grant The Canada Council has awarded a Special Project grant to Huron Country Playhouse for the presen- tation of a Canadian play. Free at Last, a new comedy by Eric 'Nicol has been successfully produced in Vancouver and Fredericton. The Ontario Premiere will take place at Huron Country Playhouse on August 7 (previews August 5-6) and will play until August 16. The grant for $1,500 will aid in offsetting some costs of this special Canadian production. Free At Last, is a comedy about a recently separated man in his forties. His faith in himself i$ shattered, and then he finds Sheila to help Mary's musings BY MARY ALDERSON At last week's council meeting Grand Bend's reeve Bob Sharen announced that his village had three assets - the river, the beach and beautiful girls. The river is fine and dandy if you're a fisherman or a sailor. As for beautiful girls - I won't even comment on , that chauvinistic statement. The beach is very important to the village, but I think the reeve forgot a fourth very important asset. Grand Bend would be nothing without sunshine. I've really enjoyed taking a daily drive down Main Street and looking at Lake Huron this past year. One thing I've noticed is that if , it's a cloudy, rainy or snowy day, you'll see no one on Grand Bend's main street or on the beach. But if the sun is shining - no matter what the temperature - you'll see people. Even on very cold days when the beach is covered with ice and snow, as long as the sun is shining, you'll see people. Cross country skiers would be looking for a place without a sandy patch, and explorers would be climbing the mounds of ice and snow along the shore, All ages would be out senior citizens walking the dog, or kids carrying toboggans. But go to that same beach the next day, and if it hap- pened to be overcast and the sky was black and threatening, you'd think your were in a ghost town. The lake is very in- teresting to watch. This winter it was wide open, and covered with huge white caps well into January. Then suddenly one day, it was frozen and still. A week ago Monday was the first time I was able to see any blue water in the lake. Along the horizon was a strip of open water. The weathermen an- nounced that Thursday was the first day of spring and Mother Nature co-operated. Grand Bend began to look like her summer-self. A few stores that had been closed while owners wintered in Florida were opening up. bids, out of school, got out their skate boards and skipping ropes. The Sun shone, and people came to the beach. I took off my coat last Thursday, and strolled up and down the beach. A line of cars was parked along the shore, and if it hadn't been for the huge piles of ice, snow and frozen sand along the water's edge, we might have been able to say the season had started. One couple from Kitchener had found a hole in the ice in the river, and were getting their fishing tackle out of the trunk of their car. Two Men, and I don't think they'd mind being called senior citizens, him pick up the pieces, Humour is never far away as he struggles with the problems of male menopause and his attempts to be "free at last." The Ontario Arts Council has increased its Operating Gant this year by $500 over last year's $26,000. In ad- dition a special grant of $1,000 from the Ontario Touring, Arts Fund will supplement the cost of a special, one night only performance of Spring Thaw, 80 on June 7. Tickets for Spring Thaw '80 are available by mail-order i_to subscribers only until April 28, at which time they will go on sale to the general public. EaliPAVIIMS* sat in their, pick-up truck looking at the ice moving around in water, They said they lived near Lambeth and they had just come up for a drive. A car load of teen agers had their windows rolled down and tape-deck , turned up. Another man from Nairn had decided to go for a drive with his two small children. They were having great fun on the gritty slide. A gang of kids and dogs were climbing the mountains of ice, dangerously close to open water. One woman had decided to drive to Grand Bend to go for a walk on the beach and had carefully locked her car door, with the keys inside. came along just as a policeman was skillfully breaking into her car through the vent window. He asked that I not take his picture while he was per- forming an illegal act. The next day, Friday, I drove down to the beach again. Pickle Mother Nature was finished with her little first-day-of-spring party, and decided to return to winter weather. The sky was black arid huge waves were rolling in the lake among the icebergs. The wind was whipping huge wet flakes of snow mixed with rain and sleet, And there was not a soul around. I was really looking for- ward to watching the ice leave the Ausable River cut that runs through our front yard, I had heard stories about how the ice creaks and groans and then suddenly heaves itself free and flows down river. It's supposed to be a spectacular sight. When I left for work Thursday morning the ice in the river was fairly solid.It was mushy and slushy and there was water around the edges, but there was still lots of ice. When I arrived hotne that night, I was amazed to find no ice at all in the river. A few big chunks were piled along the shore. But the water was high and moving fast. All this was very confusing to our pup, Pepper. He went tearing down the river bank, but came to an abrupt stop, At least he knows he can't walk on water. He sure was puzzled because just the day before he had been out there running around. Suddenly his territory is Cut ih half. * * It's a little disconcerting to hear on the radio that the Ministry of Natural. Resources has issued a flood warning for southwestern Ontario. Especially when youlive on a river bank in ah area the township has toned flood plain.