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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-07-12, Page 5• OP-ED PAGE Enjoy yourstay at Lunacy Manor_ Let's see - I got the ten-gal- lon pail of Tums, a trunk full • of crossword puzzles and the bran muffins are stacked on pallets in. the basement - "Okay Mom, I'll pick you up in twenty minutes!" "No, Mom. - not plenty of minutes - let's be a little more exact. Twenty! Twenty min- utes!" My mother - owns a four Y hundred dollar hearing aid which she keeps in her change purse. This precludes any meaningful conversation between us but it's neat because if you yell really loud into her purse you can see the loons on theone dollar coins put their wings up over their. ears. Yes, my mother Margaret is coming to my place for a ten- day visit because my sister Gail, she shares an apartment with her, was last seen heading for the United States lips quivering and mumbling about hollow -points, clips and getting even with some people in a post office down there. So I pick her up at her apart- ment and the first thing I have to do is assure all her friends in the lobby that no, she's not - moving out, she simply prefers to bring all her clothes to my place and thcn wear all of them, all at once, as kind of subtle hint for me to turn up the heat in this the hottest July since forest fires used to rage through downtown Toronto. As we crawl out of the parking lot with the frame of my Honda Civic scraping the pavement, the kinfolk yelled, "Jed, move away from, here:" They said Californy is the place I oughtta be. Next we pass Tim Horton Donuts and my mother tells me the same story she tells me evertime we pass,a Tim Horton Donuts shop. It's become a family parable illustrating the pride we Thomases have in our young, particularly Amanda, Marg's great granddaughter and the last- tine I looked, our only young. 1 "In honour of my • mother's visit...nobody mooned us.', "Can you believe how smart that child is, Bill? - Marg begins. "we went by here the other day and when she saw the sign she said: "Do -no: Nan: Do -no:" I agree immediately that this kid is a genius, not lettingthe fact that she's in second year journalism at Carleton take the sheen off the. essence of the story. (Okay, the kid's four and just for the record when she passed a Ponderosa, she also goes: "M000" On the outskirts of town we pass a business that always catches Margaret's eye for the -sheer number of vehicles parked in front and she always says: "Boy they're doing well there. Must be some sale, dear." And -I nod and say: "some sale alright." But what I really want to do is ask her if she thinks it's just a coincidence that the first two rows of vehicles in that lot are '95 Ram pick-up trucks with sticker prices on the windshields. What -I really want to do is scream "It's a freakin' Dodge Local servicemen return home FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JULY 19, 1895 John Shepherd, Reeve of Tuckersmith, Robert Varley and John Latta, left Hensall Station for Liverpool, England. . They sailed from Montreal in the steamer, Lutherian, and Mr. Shepherd took with hien a carload of sheep . and five carloads of cattle. Rev. Peter Musgrove, of McKillop, now has one of the handsomest driving horses in this disiriet. He bought it from 0. C. Willson. Fred Cardno, son of Alexander Cardno, of this town, has gone to Mountain, North Dakota and intends to remain there. * * * Diptheria has brokcn out on the 14th concession of McKillop, but all cases are doing well. JULY 16, 1920 Miss Jefferson, Miss Crich and Miss Ruth Thompson of town are attending the summer school at Alma College and Miss Evelyn Adams and Miss Mary Hays are attending a similar school at Geneva Park, Couchiching. * * * Andrew Y. Hall, Union Stock Yards, was here superintending the shipping of six cars of some of the finest cattle ever delivered at this station. The shipment consisted of 112 head; 76 were purchased from W. J. Devereaux of Tuckersmith and 36 were fed by Thomas McMillan of Hullett. A total of $23,900 was realized and were purchased through the well-known dealer, P. A. O'Sullivan. * ** J. E. Willis has disposed of the Strand Theatre to John Pullman, who now has pos- session. * * * Misses Dorothy Wilson, Helen Dickson and Mary Edmunds of town have suc- cessfully passed their exams at the Faculty of Education, Toronto. * * * Messrs. James Graves and Mulkern of London have about completed very extensive alter- ations and improvements to the interior of St. James' Church, Scaforth. • ** An interesting event in the history of the Egmondville Presbyterian congregate n took place in connection with the laying of the oomer stone of the new church which is being erected as a memorial to those who gave their lives in freedom's cause. Mrs. George Laidlaw, the oldest member of the Egmondville congregatign, placed coins and copies of Ole current periodicals of the Pres- byterian Church. n the Years Agonev JULY 20, 1945 Seaforth boys were returned on the Letitia and Ile de France which docked at Halifax, were W.O. G.S. Habkirk, Fred E. Willis, Gordon Regele and R. 0. MacTavish. At an investiture in Buckingham Palace, Capt. F. I. Archibald, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Archibald, Tuckersmith, was one of the group to officers decorated by King George. *** Donald Wilson, 10 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilson of Egmondville, suffered seri- ous head injuries when he fell down a hide -shute onto a cement floor in the Jackson .Tannery. * * * L/Cpl. A. S. Leybourne returned home aboard the liner 'Queen Mary' for a 30 -day leave, after which he will take advanced training before pro- ceeding to the Pacific theatre of war. JULY 16, 1970 Ronald C. Sills, lawyer, Kitchener, was one of five people to receive the Vanier award at the Canada Jaycees National C rivention in Regina on Monday. A feature of the recent senior banquet at Huron Centennial School was the presentation of awards to a number of stu- dents. These included: French: Beth Broome, Egmondville; runner-up, Audrey . • Gingerich; Music: Audrey Gingerich, Zurich; runner-up, Randy • Wilson, Brucefield. High academic boy: Brian Finnigan, Egmondville; runner-up, Jack Porter, Clinton. 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When we get to my place the first thing my mother does is greet Waggie by calling him Tiger, the name of her cat. He cocks his head, waiting for the correction which comes immediately: "Oh, sorry Malcolm" That's it for Waggie. He disappears into the base- ment vowing not to come up until he hear luggage leaving. Actually we had a great time together including breakfast outside every morning and a field trip to the Belmont Hotel for draft beer and chicken-in- the-basquet, where - by phon- ing ahead and making a special request in honour . • of my mother's visit nobody mooned us. - We love you Marg, but I have a bit of bad news. You know how - Gail, Joan and I have always vowed that you - would never go to a...ho...ho...(can - barely bring myself to say the word) home. Well, Mom, I'm afraid you should start preparing yourself now to spend at least some time in a...a...you know what. 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