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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2000-03-29, Page 8PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2000. CranbrookThenewsfrom Local traveller home from France Compiled by Peter Hagedoorn Phone 887-6270 Community wishes its residents wells The community wishes speedy recuperation to, Heather Heatherington, Dona Knight and Stewart Stevenson who each returned home from various hospital stays. A certain “bowl” that had graced a bathroom in it’s bet­ ter days was displayed on the lawn of the Workman family, festooned with balloons and pennants. Belated Happy Birthday, to whomever owns up to that one and it is not Mr Workman! And ... yes, the twins were bom on March 21. Hendrik Benjamin Hagedoorn, (6 lbs. lloz.) was born first (!) and then Evelyn Susanne Hagedoorn (51bs 12oz.). Adam stayed for two days in hospital with Kimberley to learn how to handle his new responsibilities. He did not sleep much. 1 am going to inspect my millennium twins on Monday. Anne Reilley is back from France and wrote the follow­ ing for the paper: “I recently returned from my trip to Caen, France. Caen is in the province of Normandy. I visited many interesting sights in Normandy such as the Bayeux Tapestry. It is a huge tapestry that depicts the rise of William the Conqueror to the throne as King of England. We saw many abbeys and museums and the leaning Church of Caen. In Paris I visited the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame Cathedral and 1’ Arc de Triomphe. I am look­ ing forward to the visit of my French partner, Sonia Abotorabi, but I hope she' does not expect to buy a post­ card of Cranbrook”. The news from alton Compiled by Patty Banks Phone 887-6156 Man tells highlights Walton principal of holiday down under in London hospital The school welcomed back Alice McDowell earlier this week but she became ill again and had to go home. At the time of writing this she has been sent to University Hospital in London. This week in the kinder­ garten room they studied the letter Y. They played with yel­ low playdough, made cre­ ations from yellow craft sup­ plies, painted with yellow paint and made a mini-book of Things that are Yellow. Students welcomed spring with beaming faces. They beamed even brighter when Mr. Love brought the riding toys outside. Mrs. Kale brought in some pussy wil­ lows and they learned a poem about pussy willows and drew pictures of them. They listened to birds out­ side and talked about the dif­ ferent types of beaks. They tried eating popcorn, raisins and apple slices like the birds do, but agreed that their hands sure worked a lot better than their beaks. The Grade 1 /2s are compar­ ing different life cycles by completing their recording of the life cycle of their meal­ worms. They now have meal­ worms at three of the four life stages: larva, pupa and adult. They created a storybook of the life cycle of their amaryl­ lis bulb. Now they have plant­ ed oregano, basil and thyme seeds to monitor their growth. On Thursday, as an intro­ duction to their new nutrition unit they made and tasted a Middle Eastern dish called, hummus with pita bread. Everyone tried both of them with mixed results. Grade 3s are still counting money and deciding on cor­ rect coins to use. In reading they started Super Senses and the first story is a native Indian story about an early morning on the lake and the meeting of the loons. In phys ed they are doing co-operative team ball games and having fun. In French they have start­ ed a unit about places in their neighbourhood. The lucky Grade 4s have started their swimming les­ sons in Vanastra. When they aren’t swimming they are learning a computer program called, HyperStudio. It is a multi-media presentation pro­ gram. In their reading club this month they are reading books about things with wings. Their next meeting will be in April. Grandpa, grandson greeters at Duff’s Ian Wilbee and grandson Kevin Wilbee were the greeters at Duff’s United Church on March 26. Guest speaker Barb Hicks from Clinton welcomed everyone and drew their attention to the lovely array of flowers on the piano which were placed there in memory of Norman Hubley, by his family. • Her sermon was part two about forgiveness, saying that you become what you hate, if you do not forgive. She reminded people about the UCW meeting April 5 at 8 p.m. and that next week’s speaker will be Margaret Engeland. Regeles take first at euchre Euchre at Walton Hall saw 11 tables at play. The first place winners were Bob and Laurene Regele with 84 points. The second place win­ ners were Hazel Reid and party Delores Howatt with 80 points. Close behind in third place were Lloyd and Lillian Appleby. Free passes for lone hand winners went to Dorothy Daer and Glen Sellers. I cornered Matt Lee the other day to have him fill me in on the last part of his trip. They spent three months in Australia where they pur­ chased an old Datsun 120Y which they named, Peggy Sue. It was incredibly hot and dry there, reaching tempera­ tures of 44°C. Part of the time they stayed with Matt’s rela­ tives and tented for the rest. Sand flies were a little bit of a nuisance when camping but he has seen an area of grass turned black by millions of these little bugs. One guy told him not to be surprised if you were to look down at your legs one time and see them black with these flies. Mosquitoes are no worse than here. The first highlight was see­ ing the logger head turtles (an endangered species) lay their eggs. They had driven to a place called, Mon Repos Beach which means my rest, where these turtles could be found. There was a group called CALM, an equivalent to our environmental group/ ministry of natural resources, doing research on logger­ heads. At night they went down to the beach with flashlights and stood behind these turtles as they dug their bodypits. It was quite interesting to watch. They measure and determine how deep to dig with their fin. Once the female had her pit dug she layed in it and “fired out” 120 eggs, which she then covered up making a mound. She then made more mounds so predators couldn’t figure out which mound her eggs were under. The turtle then made her way back into the water. Because of the dangers of erosion and the incoming tide the researchers were trying to find the right mound (the markers they had previously placed were knocked down by the turtle) to move the eggs to hole further inland Matt and Cheryl got to help. Matt said they felt like leather ping pong balls. These turtles are around 50 - 60 years old before they can ever lay eggs. Then they come back to the same place perhaps twice a year to lay. Their next great experience was seeing the dolphins at Monkey Mia. Matt just had to touch one, so he went down the beach away from the crowd and sat in the water amongst some small boats. He began splashing the water with his hand when all of a sudden it was there ... a dol­ phin right there looking at him. He couldn’t get over the look of intelligence in its eyes. It allowed him to touch its head and then as it moved past him, Matt felt its wet, rubber-like back all the way to its tail, which Matt hung onto for a minute. He was shocked when the dolphin actually turned and looked back at Matt as if to ask what he was trying to do. It was an experience that left him in total awe of the creature. The next day they came back down to the feeding area and Cheryl got to help feed the dolphins. She held the buckets of fish while the dol­ phins swam around her and then she had Matt throw fish out of the buckets to the hun­ gry dolphins. The last days of their trip were at Coral Bay about I,500 km. north of Perth. They spent three’days snor­ keling and looking at the coral and the schools of fish. They walked in the water about 50 foot, then there was a 10 foot drop where the coral began. It was interesting to have all those fish swim around them, just as curious about them as they were about them. Some of the schools were at least two feet long. He said most of the land was desert-like with scrub trees. They saw lots of kanga­ roos and wallabies and emus. At night you had to drive slow because of all the kanga­ roos on the roads. They ate a lot of delicious seafood, with snapper being Matt’s favourite fish and cala­ mari (squid) being a very delectable food as well. They had a wonderful trip that they won’t soon forget and already are planning to go back again some day to see all the things that they missed. Now, having seen New Zealand and Australia through Matt’s eyes, I want to go too. 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