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She's in a real funk!
sThe first four days of last week were
enough to put me in a real funk until
spring arrives. The white stuff started
and by Thursday it was still coming
down.
lobate winter! Everytaing changes.
As I stood at the pasteup board at 7
a.m. Tuesday 1 realize the early morn-
ing sounds have changed. The a.m.
man Phil Main, making light hearted
cracks, is accompanied by the sound of
a snow plow
going down
the main
street. It is
not music to
my ears.
That
night I heard
a snowmobile on the street. The next
morning I really didn't have to set my
alarm as the local town crew went by
my house (I'm riot complaining). The
sound of shovels scraping on cement
are accompanied by the roar of the big
snowblowers cleaning out lanes and
parking lots.
A lonely Canada goose honks his
exasperation as he flies overhead.
Then we have. the seasonal sound of
spinning tires; footsteps on the street do
not go click, click as the footwear
changes to boots that kind of slop, slop
along.
How many of you were really ready
for winter when it hit?
I wasn't! Monday morning 1 had to
sew a button on my long coat so the
neck wouldn't flap open; I had to find
my ugly head wanner; I couldn't find
my good, sensible warm boots so was
forced to wear a pair that weren't water
proof. •
But -as much as I detest this season, I
occasionally catch myself deriving
some joy from it - like the beauty of
little mounds of snow on a fence post,
the heavily
laden huge
lirtgs trees, the
peacefulness
of the huge
white flakes
ona calm
day falling
straight down. It doesn't last long once
I have to get in the car and take to. the
roads.
By the way, talking about roads,
there are driver's out there who fail to
clean their rear lights or windows off.
Shame on you. You're an accident
looking for a place to happen.
*****
Last Wednesday we were greeted
with a miniature snowman, complete
with a halo of burrs, colored eyes, two
twigs for his arms, and little feet. We
carefully moved him to the 'side of the
step and the next morning he was back
on the step to greet us again. Whoever
you are :thanks! It made our day!
Ramb
by Pat Livingston
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Just weeping!
(Livingston photo)
A first: female gets sea -going ticket in 1926
70 years ago
November 25, 1926
plucky young woman - This is the age of
adventurous women. The palm for courage,
however, must be awarded to Miss Victoria
Drummond, the 28 old English girl who has just
received a second engineers certificate. She is the
first woman to take a, sea going engineers "ticket."
When her decision to go to sea as an engineer was
made known some time ago, Miss Drummond was
congratulated on her pluck, but nobody who knew
what she would have to face fancied she would go
through with it. Many men have found the job too
much for them. But she has' never flinched. She has
taken duty at all hours and in everyy kind of weather,
and won the admiration of every man she has worked
with.
She goes to sea for one more trip, when she hopes
to pass her final examination and set up in business
as a consulting marine engineer.
50 years ago
November 27,1946
Hiron Council shelves airport purchase -
Huron. County Council last week unanimous-
ly endorsed the opinion of the warden's com-
mittee that the matter of purchasing Port Albert air-
port be laid over for the time being.
Ask standard time- A motion by Reeves
Alexander and Johnston that the County Council to
endorse province wide standard "time, was carried.
15 years ago
November 25,1981 '
Federation rejects waste site possibility in
Huron County - Huron County's prime agri-
cultural land and rural community are incom-
patible with a large scale toxic waste disposal site
according ,to the, Huron County Federation of
Agriculture's president, Gerry Fortune.
At the HCFA meeting in °Clinton, November 19,
the directors unanimously agreed the site for such a
plant should be centrally located, as close as possible.
to the major areas of waste production ,to minimize
transportation hazards.
The directors noted that according to the
MacLaren report, Huron County is -one of the few
counties in southwestern Ontario with no sources of
toxic liquid wastes.
Jim McIntosh,, second vice-president, summarized
the discussion by saying, "we produce and sell beef,
pork, poultry, milk and eggs into the urban areas and
don't ask them to take our waste products (manure),
'why should we have to take their wastes out in the
country?"
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