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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2013-11-27, Page 44 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, November 27, 2013 opinloo www.lakeshoreadvance,com Ukosboro Advaoeo PUBLISHED WEEKLY P.O.BOX 1195 58 Ontario St., North Grand Bend ON NOM 1 TO phone: 519-238-5383 fax: 519-238-5131 email: lakeshore.advance@sunmedia.ca SUN MEDIA A Quebecor Media Company NEIL CLIFFORD Publisher/Advertising Manager nell.clittordesunmedia.ca LYNDA HILLMAN-RAPLEY Editor Lakeshore. advance@sunmed i a.ca MARK STEPHEN Advertising Sales mark .stephenesunmedia.ca KATHY YOUNG Typesetting/Classifieds Iakeshore. ads©sun media.ca www.lakeshoreadvance.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVANCE: Regular $42.00 ($40.00 + 2 GST) Two year $78.00 (74.30 + 3.72) Publications Mall Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO LAKESHORE ADVANCE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O.Box 1195 58 Ontario St. North Grand Bend ON NOM 1 TO For any non-dellverfes or delivery concerns. phone: 519-238-5383 e -mall: Lakeshore advancewsunmedia ca Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) are to bo sent to LakeshoveAdvenceat the address Indicated here. Advertising Is accepted on the condition that In the event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous Item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertise- ment will be paid at the applicable rates We acknowledge the financial support of the (imminent of Cnnnda It gh the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPP) for our publishing activities. Canadr' Member ol the Canadian Community pity Newspaper Association and Mee Ontario ('a m unItY Newst spent Association editorial Receiving the David Scatcherd community spirit award Winning an award is something we all aspire to. ()ver the years the most important awards I have received either reflect my love for history or my passion of community. Receiving the David Scatcherd Community Spirit Award is proba- bly the most honoured award yet and on so many levels. First, I am honoured to call David my friend. He is someone 1 admire and respect and try to emulate for his community passion. Secondly I love that he followed in his father- Colin Campbell Scatcherd's footsteps. Long before "shop local" was a popular catch phrase- Mr. Colin Scatcherd was doing this. With his wife Audrey and children Jane and David they would leave London in the late spring and come to Oakwood Park for the summer. Once here they bought everything here. Their new icebox came from Ken Young's Hardware store downtown. 'Ihe meat came from Wally Desjardine and their furniture from GriffThomas. For a treat they bought their fries and hotdog from a downtown vendor and David skated at the roller rink. When it came to construction they hired local and bought local supplies. He donated the land that now houses St. John Anglican church. That has helped make Grand Bend what it is today. In that spirit of community, ours thrived. When David came back to town, as a grown-up with Valorie, John, Colin and Helene - he did the same thing. Community is everything to him as it is to me. I am proud to be part of all this and am thrilled to be recog- nized with this award- especially because David's name is attached to it. — Lynda Millman-Rapley letters to the editor Urban renewal Dear editor: Not too many seasons ago, the beach front at Grand Bend was revitalized with the now thriving dune grasses, and the following year the Main Street was rejuvenated to its flowing facade of today, But just a few weeks ago, Tim Morton's reopened its doors with a fresh modern look and flow, doubling the drive thru capacity. Its a wonderful new cottage country facade and modern functional interior, even with function- ing warm hand dryers! Just wait for the onslaught of interlop- ing tourists conte May to be amazed at the new look. And by that time we will have unveiled the cross walks on Ontario Street. Great move, and improvement all round. One step at a time in making NOM 1'I'O a thoroughly wonderful place to be. Rob Webb Grand Bend LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lakeshore Advance welcomes letters to the editor. Letters Hurst include the writ- er's full name, address, daytime phone number and signature (for verification. Anonymous letters will not he published. We reserve the right to edit all editorial submissions including letters for clarification, style and length. Letters must he signed and be in good taste and follow the laws of libel and slander. Sands of Time Lynda Hillman-Rapley Editor, Lakeshore Advance Missing M.A.S.H. a hydro outage issue 1 dare say my husband would not have fared v y well with Charles ingles in that little house on the prai- rie. I le gets bored very easily. 'faking you back to last Monday when the hydro went out --let's just say with- out television Randy is lost. On Sunday night the hydro went out at 10:30. 'that's okay, bed time anyway. But to wake up Monday morn- ing to find that it would he a long time before it came back on- 1 saw the stressed brows of a worried man- immediately. Where most people would worry about the frozen food or maybe the lack of heat—missing any episodes of M.A.S.hi seemed to be a major issue. I worried because there was no way i would be able to proof my paper- but his issue was 'would the television be okay during this outage?' Since it was daytime and the sun was shining I could do some work around the house and Randy walked around like he had lost his best friend. Every few hours he would call Hydro One to see when the hydro- or rather the television service would be restored. I )inner was easy- got the bbq going and we have a gas stove so no problem there. We ate by candlelight -him of course voicing his concern that he couldn't see his food. So, as the sun went down we sat in the living room the fire blaring from the gas fireplace. We both had ,t flashlight. 1 used my battery operated devise to read he used his to look out the window asking questions. "I don't remember seeing that red light over there- it we don't have power- how can we see that Tight?" I look up from my book and mumble some sort of "I don't know" or "Who the heck cares?" I go back to my book. "1 wonder why every business does not have • generator," he says out loud, as if there was someth important he needed to purchase at that c\,t,• moment. 1 continued to read the same paragraph torr the third time. i low did the Ingles do it—they lived by candlelight and had stuff to do? I was wishing we had it cow to milk or a field to sow or maybe some wood to chop I just wanted to finish reading one paragraph. "Do you want a hot chocolate? I'm cold. Why don't you make us hot chocolate?" he asks, not bring able to see the expression of despair i am displaying. By this time 1 was ready to go help the I Iydro One workers- just for the sake of the television service being restored. Or better yet, maybe Randy could help them and 1 could read. 'ihe outage lasted 25 hours - by 1 1:3() p.m. the serv- ice was restored. Not quite asleep- 1 realized it was back on because as if by osmosis- the television sprang to life just as it had been- with no time to shut it down- 25 -hours before when the hydro went out.