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Times -Advocate, January 7, 1981
Mary's
musings
BY MARY ALDERSON
Have you ever noticed that
thing's always take Itulger
when you're waiting on
them? The same theory says
that a "watched pot never
boils". Sometimes it's just
your imagination telling you
that it's taking longer,
sometimes it's not.
I've always felt that a
watched clothes dryer never
dries. I try to have plenty of
other things to do while I'm
waiting for a load of clothes
to dry. Usually the sheets are
ready to be folded before you
know it.
But if you're in a hurry.
and waiting for the clothes to
dry, they always seem to
' take much longer. That's
what happened to me last
week.
I waited and waited and
still the clothes were soggy.
Every so often I'd poke my
hand in, and they didn't
seem to be any drier. Finally
I decided that the machine
must be broken.
Now hanging out a couple
of loads of wet clothes on the
clothesline in a January
snow storm is not my idea of
a good way to start the new
year.
I told my husband the news
that every man loves to hear.
"The dryer's broken," I
said. "Does it go around and
get hot?" he asked. "Yes," I
replied. "Then it's not
broken", he told me.
So I turned it on again. And
although it was purring, and
turning, and getting very,
very warm, the clothes
weren't any drier than when
they first came out of the
washer.
Francis
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Western Ontario for many
years has a number of
hobbies he will be continuing
during retirement.
In addition to being an avid
hunter and fisherman,
Francis has one of the
largest collection of exotic
and Canadian waterfowl.
To know what everyone
knows is to know nothing.
1 have been known to
forget to clean the lint cat-
cher from time to time, so I
decided to check it. A lint
catcher clogged with lint can
slow down the drying
process, I've found.
But it was clean, perfectly
dean. Which made me
suspicious. How come those
clothes had been turning
round and round in there and
not producing any lint? Had
we suddenly started living
lint free lives?
When I learned that my
husband had not taken the
lint brush to his socks before
tossing them into the laundry
basket, I decided that we had
to look elsewhere for the
reason that the clothes were
not getting dry.
I sent Victor outside to see
if steam was coming out of
that little flap at the end of
the dryer vent. I figured that
it was frozen shut.ut alas,
the vent was flapping in the
breeze -- er, the gale winds.
However, there was no
steam coming out of the
flap! Ahah!
We decided to track down
the mystery. My husband
put on his ski jacket and
snowmobile mitts and
headed to the attic. You see,
the ventilation pipe for the
dryer runs up the wall, into
the attic and out the eave,
and here he found the
problem.
A scientist could probably
give a better explanation of
what went on, but thisis what
happened. The hot air in the
vent pipe formed con-
densation in the very cold
attic, which froze. A huge
chunk of ice was blocking the
vent pipe.
And apparently, without
ventilation, the dryer doesn't
dry. So Victor removed the
piece .of pipe which was
blocked by ice, and the
clothes were dry in minutes.
Unfortunately, • the
removal of the frozen pipe
allowed the dryer to ven-
tilate all over the attic. And,
by the way, our clothes were,
not lint free -- in fact all those
boxes stored in the cold attic
now have a warm coat of
lint.
A BIG FRIEND — Billy Graham of Centralia poses with the
large snowman he constructed Saturday morning. T -A photo
Henderson
Continued from page 19
tunate we in Ontario are.
Sirloin steak in Ontario
costs $3.39 lb.: in Japan,
$15.55 lb. Porkchops in On-
tario costs $1.22 Ib: in
Switzerland $4.48 lb. Eggs in
Ontario costs 97e doz.; in
Copenhagen $2.23 doz. Bread
in Ontario costs 95e loaf; in
Rome $1.89 loaf. A 21 item
food basket here costs
$55.58: in Tokyo costs
$135.10: in Stockholm costs
$99.18; in Paris $109.87. The
average worker in Ontario
labours about 28 minutes for
a pound of sirloin while in
the United Kingdom it takes
90 minutes to earn enough
for the same amount.
Ontario spends less of
their disposable income on
food, about 14 percent on
food consumed in the home,
while the United Kingdom
and Japan spend over 20 per-
cent and the Italians spend
over 25 percent of their dis-
posable income on food.
As 1980 draws to a close I
would like to wish all of you
the best in 1981.
Lorne C. Henderson
Minister of Agriculture and
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Hockey teams split
Plenty of activities in Stephen
All's .well that ends well!
Our New Year's Eve party at
the hall ended 1980 on the
right note. We entertained a
full house of party -goers who
enjoyed a good time and all
made it to their homes safely
afterwards. Thanks to all
who attended. Because of
them, the dance turned out to
be one of our best fund
raising events so far.
Personally the old year
ended on a sour note. In the
afternoon of New Years Eve
my wallet fell out of my
pocket and has yet to be
found. Later on in the
evening as I was shovelling
sand, which I intended to put
on the driveway at the hall so
as to ease the footing for the
revellers, my keys to the car
fell out of my jacket
somewhere in the snow.
I spent about two hours
searching before finally
calling it a night. At noon of
the next day I began again
sifting through piles of wind
blown snow until near three
o'clock when it dawned on
my wife and I to contact our
friend Dave Lewis of the
Exeter arena.
It just so happened that he
was visiting a good friend of
ours in the Park. Dave uses a
metal detector as a hobby.
He was glad to give us a
hand. Dave arrived and
hooked up his apparatus then
proceeded to scan the area.
He covered virtually the
entire area only to find
pieces of steel sticking up
out of the ground and a soup
can.
I was ready to call it quits
and wait until the spring
thaw but Dave was not. He
said that he would give it
another go, but this time
with the ear phones. He set
them on his head and con-
tinued to scan again. After
about fifteen minutes he
hollered at me that he had
detected something new.
Sure enough under about six
inches of sand and snow
there were my keys. My
personal thanks to Dave and
his machine.
There were two minor
hockey games Saturday in
which our teams came out
with a split. Yvonne Wells
scored the only three goals
for our girls, Tracey Walden
assisting on one of them, as
the team went down to a 13-3
defeat at the hands of the
Teeswater team. Don't let it
get you down girls there are
better days ahead.
The pee wees had an easier
time of it defeating the
Hensall boys 11-1. Scoring in
that game were David Smith
and Steve McIntyre with
three each, Bill Lessard two,
and Roger Ward, Ronny Van
Masenhoven and Darryl
Lammie with one apiece.
Since the new rules of now
body checking was in-
troduced this year the game
has become faster and
cleaner. It's a pleasure to
watch the little guys race
down the ice without the fear
of being clobbered by some
big brute at the other end.
I plan to get the game
sheets from the coaches
every week so that I can give
, the kids some of the
recognition they so justly
deserve by printing their
scores and names in this
paper. Hcpefully the coaches
will give my a hand. A few
pictures will also help.
Upcoming events: These
are not for Huron Park
people only. Don't forget that
our club is called the
Optimist Club of Stephen and
thats what it means.
Everyone from the township
is entitled to participate in
our programs. •
Tuesday night sports for
the boys is in operation again
at the school. Saturday
mornings at nine at the rec
center for boys and girls 12
years and under is still going
strong. Bring your kids out.
There will be two open
dances this month at the
hall. The first one being held
on the 7th and the next on the
31st. For the male football
fans we are holding a super
bowl party at the hall on the
25th from noon on. The ad-
mission is $5.00a head which
includes a meal.
If you want to get out of
the house for an afternoon
then you should plan to at-
tend.
January 22 the club is
sponsoring a blood donors
clinic in the hall for all those
who wish to give a pint to
help save a life. It takes very
little time, is painless and it
will make you feel good.
All of you kids out there
who have any kind of talent,
or who think they do are
invited to submit your name,
age, address, school and
type of act to Harold Borden
or your school before the 12th
of January. Because on the
18th at 2 p.m. we are holding
a variety show made up of all
of you. It should prove to be a
very entertaining afternoon.
Don't be bashful. Nobody is
perfect.
Bingos will be starting
again for all interested on
the 15th of this month. If you
have never played before,
come out and try your luck.
You just might walk away
with a pocket full of money.
At our regular meeting on
Sunday we had three guests
visit us. Mrs. Alice Watson,
Larry Henderson and Stan
Heaman (representing the
teens and parents) ap-
proached the members on
the subject of Teen Town. As
most of you know, we have
had our share of problems
with Teen Town in the past
and are very reluctant to get
involved with it again. But,
with the assistance of the
club, these parents feel that
they can get it organized and
running properly again.
It is going to take a lot of
work and help from in-
terested parents to See that it
is. We can't afford to neglect
our teens but neither can we
afford to be run by them. So
if you are approached to give
a hand then please do so.
Many of you are not aware
of the sports afternoon held
each Sunday at the Rec
Centre for families. Jim
Merrylees, who is in charge,
tells me that he would like to
see many more people out.
All it costs is $1.00 each.
That's pretty darn cheap for
an afternoon of fun and
exercise.
You always win if you lose
with a smile.
Tom Lessard
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