HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-01-15, Page 7Snow, snow, snow
By James Friel
Snow, snow, snow.
Where? Everywhere, look around
you.
Where does it all come from? What
are we going to do with it all? Why
doesn't it just go away, back to where it
came from?
One simple answer takes care of it all:
it's winter and these things happen in,
winter.
However logical the answer, , the
questions are still there.
Look at the facts: in November, we
had three feet of snow. In December,
we had nine feet of snow and already, in
the first two weeks or so of January,
we've had 81 feet of snow. It's
increasing exponentially.
Exaggeration? Well, yes, a bit. But it
is still more than obvious that there is
far too much of the "fluffy white stuff",
as our fluffy weathermen like to say.
And there's nothing we can do until
that mysterious hand ' so many see
working marvels behind the scones gets
tired of throwing snowballs andL wants
to plant a garden in the mud of spring.
1 knew that one of the great things
about moving here to the westlands was
that the winters would be so extreme,
compared to what,I was exposed to, that
the season would seem absurd.
"This is crazy," I say,,laping in awe
at banks easily higher than the roof of a
wild Honda. And when you look at the
tons of snow in those banks, you have to
wonder who figured out that no two
snowflakes are alike.
Anderson
I'm a skeptic. Prove it, I say.
The people who figured it out, based
on the limitlessness of the universe and
the magic of the mysterious hand, don't
seem to think that the mysterious hand
could fashion a few hundred trillion
snowflakes all the same. Who checks
cut snowflakes anymore?
Or, maybe just two could be created.
In fact, a year or two back, a pair of
scientists insisted they had found two
snowflakes identical in every respect.
Before they could prove it to anyone
else, one melted. Whoops.
What can we do about this? you
might ask. Nothing, I already told you
it's what happens in winter. But 1 do
notice a disturbing trend at Christmas-
time.
Many people actually invite snow
inside to grace their windows! I cant
imagine how you've been tricked into
letting snow inside your home.
Sure, it comes from a can but one day
;when you're at work, that flat, smelly
kind of snow is going to let in the more
vigorous, prolific snow and there won't
be anything you can do about jt.
Snow will take over your -favOrite
chair and the channel changer and mix
that ,Chivas Regal you save for special
occasions with grape juice.
The dog will growl at you when you
come home from work, the kids will be
treating snow like their ,favorite Uncle
and you'll be complaining, just as you
do about that brother-in-law of yours:
"When is snow going to get. a job?"
Then you'll be sorry.
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Sorry to report that Ann Anderson fell oner, way to work at FairvieL u KNo TAT
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week and broke her wrist. The community
wishes Ann the best and hopes it will not
be too long before she is back and able to
work.
The best of luck goes to Joan and Gerald
Mowbray and family. They left for Ghana
in West Africa on Jan. 11 for three years
where Gerald is on a work projedt.
Les and Vera Purves enjoyed Christmas
Day with their son, Jim and Debbie Purves
and family of London: On Boxing Day,
their son Jim and family took them to
Toronto to visit and celebrate the Christ-
mas holiday with Vera's sister Eugenia.
They returned home on Dec. 27.
Sympathy is extended to the families of
the late David Kraemer of Holyrood. He
died in the Kincardine Hospital on Jan. 8.
Congratulations go to Evelyn Little as
she celebrated her birthday on Jan. 10.
On Jan. 11, 1986 Dan Nicholson cele-
brated his 98th birthday at Wingham
Hospital, where he is a patient. Dan was
quite well on Saturday and enjoyed his
lunch, complete with a birthday cake, with
the members of his family.
Holiday visitors with Joe and Dean,.,,
Agnew were Jim, Judy, Michele,and Kevin
Lukas, Wailed Lake, Michigan; YAM
Angew, Spirit River, Alberta; Joanne
Agnew, Red Deer, Alberta; Bob, Gayle,
Stacy and Christopher Feeney, Toronto;
Bryan Ritchie, Red Deer, Alberta.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Morton celebrated •
their 49th wedding anniversary on Jan. 2.
Suzanne Alton; daughter of Ken and
Ruth Alton, RR 7, Lucknow, recently
_received the Carter Scholarship, named
after Mr; J. Carter of Sarnia for Huron,
County. The award is based on ail Grade
13 credits and there is first, second and
third place awards. Suzanne's award vrns
..first place.
Harold Hackettand Mat, '(Cranston)
Hackett of Ottawa, wilt b‘"celebtatjug their •
45th weddingatiniiersior on Jan. 29. The
were Married in Ashfield 000,
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