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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-07-20, Page 8Page 8 Times Advocate, July 20, 1988 .If TRACY FISHER Fisher Meats LAURIE FORRESTER Bob's Body Shop KAREN STECKLE Bayview Tavern MICHELLE TURNER Chestnut Inn Three-day Zurich ZURICH: The Zurich Fair be- gins on Friday, July 22. Many am- bitious cooks and crafty people of all ages will be -bringing their works of art and talent to be pre- sented for all to admire at the Zu- rich urich Fair. Please bring them to the arena Friday morning 9 a.m. to 12 noon. This is a change from past • years, so -please take note. Magic Show At 7:45 p.m. Zurich Agricultural Socicty presents an evening of pro- fessional entertainment with magi- cian "The Grcat Gerard". Cost of the show is S3 adults and SI for children 12 years and under. Also the official opening of the fair takes Magician Gerard Dietrich place with several local dignitaries. 'Come cheer on' the beautiful young women who arc entering the Zurich Fair Queen Contest. An impressive list of prizes is of- fered to the Zurich Fair Queen, her princesses and runners-up. Each girl will bc treated to a deli- cious meal at Ilessenland sponsored by the Zurich Agricultural Society. Each. will receive a silk floral ar- .rangement wall hanging from the socicty, Redkin_make-up samples and a -free -tanning session at the Beauty Den. In addition,:the second runner-up will receive a S10,gift •certificate from "Images" by Patti, Bayfield.. The first runner-up will be award- ed a $20 gift certificate from Wuerth's Shoes, Exeter. - • •Our new Queen will enjoy her crown, supplied by Anstetts, Exet- er, a dozcn red roses from the. Ag. Society, a.S25 gift certificate from White's Pharmacy, Grand Bend, a trophy presented by. Erb Bros. ga- rage, Zurich, a. make-up kit, sham- pooing mousse, a brass statue from the Village Guild, Bayfield, a track suit from Doug's Sports,•Zurich, at- tendance at the Ontario Association of Ag. Societies in February at. the •Royal York Hotel, Toronto, and a chance to become Miss C.N.E. in September, 1989, as well as a man- icure from Artistic Iinpressionl, Grand Benda The able judges for the event will be Karen Pfaff from "Looking Good" in Exeter along with Joanne Bowen, Exeter. Following the magic show "Beechwood" will present excellent dancing music, both rock and mood. During the evening -several -draws will be made. Advance tickets are at Shaw's Dairy Store, Schilbe Hardware, and Heimrich's at • $5 each. - Again the queen contestants will bc introduced and a winner will be announced. She will be presented with a Quccn's banner, a tiara to keep, an arm bouquet of flowers, a trophy. and several other gifts. As well each girl in the contest will re- ceive a lovely gifts in appreciation for being part of Zurich Fair. Collectors' toys hat Auction On Saturday, July 23, parade "Hats off to Agriculture" commenc- es at .12:30 south of the Zurich Public School. Please be there car - ZURICH -• No doubt a load was lifted off everyone's shoulders whcn the rain finally came. Lawns and flowers took on a ncw lease on life along with the birds and animals who welcomed some moisture. On Monday evening the ladies of Kippen United .Church sponsored the July birthday party. An evening of entertainment was enjoyed, fol- lowed by refreshments. Residents having birthdays during the month of July and receiving gifts, courtesy of the Ladies Auxiliary were: Mrs. Myrtle Dietz, Mrs. Elaine Merner, Mrs. Oriole Westlake and Mrs. Eit leen Gcmeinhardt: The .sympathy of residents and staff is extended to the family of the late Mrs. Rosetta Laub. Plans are in the drawing stage for the renovation and expansion of the home. A public meeting will be hcld •on Monday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. here in the auditorium. Any- one in the. community -and sur- rounding arca is invited to •bc present at the meeting to view drawings and enter into discussions. Mr. Marc Chalut generously used his air conditioned car on Friday to take residents out for a drive since thc weather was too hot and humid for thcm to travel in the bus. Bingo was played on Friday even- ing followed by refreshments: Thc Sunday evening chapel ser- vice was conducted by the members of the Conservative Mennonite Church. . -1 A hat auction will be held follow- ing the parade. One only ,1988 Ca- nadian Farm Show Special Edition Tractor" will be auctioned to the highest bidder. Any non- ' professional who wishes to try their DIANNE HAMILTON Dominion Tavern One of these beauties will be the 1988 Zurich Fair Queen Fair on LEISA HEIMPEL Beauty Den SHANNON WESTLAKE Country Duck Crafts weekend skill at auctioning is most wel- come. You must deposit your name in the box provided before the auction. The person bringing the most money for a hat wins a prize. Money received from the auction will go towards supporting events for -the 125th fair to be held next year.• Along with the usual displays of animals will be a special "Barnyard Zoo" with. many animal babies. _Children can pct,. talk to the ani- mals, and at a specified time will be able to feed them. A penny scramble', mini -tractor pull, obstacle course and other sur- prise events arc planned for the youth. Of course; a food booth is in the arena. Balloons and clowns to paint your face and even take your picture. - The baby show at 2 p.m. is al- ways onc.of the most popular event of the fair. • The wrist wrestling competition begins at 3 p.m. - If you arc a horse lover be sure to take in the heavy draft and Haflinger horse shows all afternoon cast of the arena. At 10 a.m. Youth 20 years, and under arc invited to come out for a hands-on experience in showman- ship. Halflingcr horses will bc pro- vided. Be sure to wear safety -toe shoes for this event. We request a parent or guardian to sign a consent form. Please see Ian Thiel at the cast side of the fair - ounds. ` Last ycar 1.7 youth participated in the junior showmanship class. Sunday, July 24 The Ontario Barrel Racing Association presents a Mid - Western. Horse Show beginning at 12 noon. This show always provides lots of excitement. Section "A" will be sponsored by Richard Bedard Con- struction, South Huron Veterinary_ Clinic and W.G. Thomson. "B" events arc sponsored by Richard Bedard Construction. Scott Merncr of Zurich is currently top of the point list. Come out to cheer him on as well as the other local riders involved in thc show. Community Church Dinner The Mennonite women of Zurich arc preparing a delicious cold supper from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The menu of salads, cold meats, rolls, relishes and desserts cost $7 adults and $3.50 children 12 years and under. Advance tickets arc available at Erb Bros. Garage, Shaws Dairy. Store, Tasty Nu Bakery, Hcimrich's, Tend- er Spot and Scyler's. An ecumeni- cal service is at 7:30 with all four churches of Zurich participating. A community choir will be led by di- rector Christine Eagleson. Guest Speaker is Dan Smith speaking on theme "Growing Together In Christ". Collection -received will be extended to the "Christian Blend Mission" This is a good opportu- nity for all to comc join and be in- spired. Penny scramble part of fun for kids. Prize-winning peach TORONTO - This spring, Fond - land Ontario held a "Heritage Peach Recipe Contest" to mark the Mini- stry of Agriculture and Food's Cen- tennial Year. Thc response to the contest was overwhelming! Bonnie Gucit, Weston, won the grand prize. Here's her recipe. Peach Souffle 1 envelope unflavored gelatine 1 3/4 cup peach nectar, divided 175 (mash fruit with fork) mL 4 eggs, separated • 4 1 tbsp lemon juice , 15 mL 1/4 tsp. almond extract • 1 mL 1/8 tsp. salt 05 mL 2 cups pureed Ontario Peaches (4 large) 500 mL 1/2 cup granulated sugar 125 mL 1 cup whipping cream 250 mL Sprinkle gelatine over 1/2 cup (125mL) peach nectar in saucepan to soften. Whip together egg yolks and remaining 1/4 (50mL) peach nectar. Stir intq`gelatine mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat un- til gelatine dissolves, about 5 min- utes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice, almond extract and salt. Cool to room temperature. Stir in peach puree. Set aside. Beat egg whites until foamy throughout. Gradually add sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form. Fold in gelatine mix- ture. Beat cream until stiff; fold in gelatine mixture. Pour into 1 -1/2 - quart (1.5 L) souffle dish extended with a 2 -inch (5 cm) wax paper col - recipe lar. Chill until firm, about 3 hours. To serve,remove paper collar. Garnish top with additional sliced peaches, if desired. Makes about 10 servings. Preparation time: 30 to 35 min- utes Chilling time: 3 hours Varna by Joan Beierling VARNA - Scheduled ball games for this week 9t the ball park arc: Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. back ball diamond, Stanley Squirt girls vs Godcrich; Wednesday July 20 at 7 p.m., front ball diamond, Agricos vs Bayfield; Wednesday, July ;20 at 9 p.m. Midgct and Bantam boys vs nutlet; Thursday July 21 at 7 p.m., B.B.D. - Stanley Squirt boys vs Godcrich t11; Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.rn., F.B.D. - Stanley Mite boys vs Goderich MI; Friday July 22 at 7 p.m. - Stanley Mite girls.vs Gode- rich Township Tuesday, July 26 at 7 p.m. -Stanley Pec Wee -girls vs C;odench and Tuesday July 26 at 9 p.m. - Stanley Bantam and Midget girls vs Godcrich Township. Bus Trip Mac and Janet Webster went on a bus trip from Thursday to Sunday with the Huron Cattlemen Associa- tion Group. They went up to Tob- ermory, ,across on the Chi-Chi- Maun to Manitoulin Island and re- turned by Sudbury and toured the nickel mine and went up to New Listkard. They then travelled back by way of Muskoka and went on a two hour boat cruise there. They aH had a very good time. Enjoyable pilgrimage By Carmel Sweeney ZURICH - An enjoyable and in- spiring day was had by all who went on the bus trip and pilgrim- age to St. Marys Shrine last Tues- day (which was C.W.L. day) with people attending from all over the London Diocese. Fr. Patrick Moore was at the shrine once again this summer, af- ter many years of devotion, saying Mass, and having a procession say- ing the Rosary around the shrine with the statue of Our Lady. The day ended with benediction. Several visiting priests for the day. assisted •Fr. Moore. Picnic lunches were eaten under the big shade trees! If you missed going to the shrine,_ you can still do so the week of August 13 to 22. Mass begins at 11:00 a.m. each morn- ing. Birthday supper A joint birthday supper was held at the home of Bill and Brenda De Groot on Sunday. Celebrating birthdays were -Brenda on Sunday and two-year-old son Andrew on Tuesday July 19. Also present were his god -parents Don and Elainc_Bcauchamp and family. Playground begins The Zurich playground started Monday morning. The younger kids go in the morning and the old- er ones in the afternoon. They will be doing various crafts, playing games, taking swimming lessons and going on bus trips. Leaders this year arc Reta De- nomrnc and Kcrri Gingcrich. Garage and Bake Sale ZURICH - The St. Boniface CWL General Meeting was held on July 12 with 38' members present. Eve- ryone welcomed our new pastor Fa- ther Peter Hayes. A prayer entitled "The Mystical Body of Christ" was read by Madeline Gclinas Plans are under way for our Garage and Bake Sale on Saturday, July 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be held on Main Street across frons the fair grounds. Everyone is welcome to attend and the proceeds will go the St. Boniface Building Fund. League pins are available from Audrey Smith. The door prize was won by Alice Ncilands. Afra Van Wondcren read a delightful poem en- titled "Why Doesn't God Help Me? Wilma Pcnnings and Afra Van Wonderen's group served a very tasty lunch and card bingo was piaycd The next CWL meeting will be held on September 20. Changes in town Charlie and Alice Srecnan have re- cently Moved from the Maple' Woods Apartments to London; Mrs: Beryl Hogg has taken up residence in thcir former apartment. The fami- ly of Charlie and Barb Jeffrey have now moved into the home of Beryl I logg on Main Street West. Mrs. Eileen Consitt has moved from the Spruce Villa Apartments to the Maple Woods Apartments. Lori -Anne Hartman and fiance Ilugh.Pcarson of Toronto visited on the weekend with her grandmother Juliette Dcnomme and Theresa Hart- man. Welcome to Chris Jackson who is spending July and August in Zurich with Father Hayes, and helping him to get settled in the rectory. Chris will be Chaplain at the Pines High School in Chatham in September. Percy and Maric Bedard Sr., Zu- rich, and Peter and Theresa Bedard, I lensall, spent the weekend in Have- lock; Ontario near Peterborough, at- tending the wedding of Leo .Milne to Carolyn Ellis. The groom is the son of Pete and Edna Milne of RR 3 Komoka. A gbod time was had by all who attended the Fairbairn family reun- ion on Sunday July 17 at the home of Doug and Betty -Ann O'Brien. ..The day began with a delicious smorgasbord picnic -style meal at noon outdoors around the pool. The afternoon was spent visiting, swim- ming and playing games. There were 44 relatives attending from Brantford, Hamilton, Halifax, Pc- tawawa, Goderich, Hensall, Exeter, Dashwood and the Zurich area. Ed and Mary Sue Tucker and daughter Sasha from Petawawa spent Sunday night and Monday with their grandparents Harvey and Mary Clausius. Barbara Willis and .son Brett of Halifax spent last week with them and other relatives in the area. Hubert Jacobs returned homc last week, July 7, to his farm home at RR 1 Zurich and parents John and Mary Jacobs. For the past four months he was an exchange student in Nantes, France, staying with the family of David Percon. Personals Thc family of Herb and Donna Klopp celebrated the couple's 34th anniversary on Sunday July 10 with a delicious dinner together at the Thirsty Fox in Grand Bend. Edgar and Ruth Willett, Innis - fail, Alberta, are presently spend- ing a couple of weeks' vacation vi- siting with his mother Luella Willett in Zurich and relatives -in the arca. Anyone planning to attend the St. Boniface fund raising dinner and dance on Friday August 5 i Exeter is asked to phone' the Beau - champs now for tickets. Scvcral Smith relatives from town attended the wedding of Joyce Sloan and John Devereaux in Sea - forth on Saturday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sloan, Scaforth. A family get-together and barbe- cue supper was held at thc home of Ralph and Audrey Smith on Sun- day, 'some attending from Toronto and Kitchener. Their daughter Karen and little Rachael are now spending the week with her parents in Rich- mond Hill. Audrey's sister, Marga- ret Dodge from Elliott Lake is stay- ing with the Smiths for the summer. Joe and Delores Stanton and fami- ly of Troy, Michigan, are enjoying the warm weather for swimming at their cottage on the Blue Water highway. Block Parents, if going away on holidays, don't forget to take•your signs out ofthe window before leaving! Francis and Cindy Denommc and three children recently enjoyed spending a weeks holidays camping near Bayfield, visiting with her brother in Trent, and taking thc kids to Santa's Village, etc. Several friends and relatives at- tended a stag and doe dance at the Community Centre in Dashwood on Saturday in honour of Phil Masse and fiancee Connie Kaak, who arc to be married on July 30. Earl and Martha Heywood, Wing - ham, were recent visitors with Ger- tie Fleischauer and Vcrlyn Fisher of the Blue Water Rest Home. Genie Fleischauer spent the week- end in London with her family. She.attended the Folk Festival in Victoria Park and the .Circle `K. - Ranch ,activities in Komoka' in which her grandson Andrew Rogers participated. Couple back from west VARNA - Bill and Mary Chessell returned on Friday from a trip to the west coast with Don and Olive Richt. While crossing thc northern states, they watchcd a tugboat push- ing 16 big barges through lock no. 7 on the Mississippi River, visited relatives of Don at Preston, Minn. and toured the Mayo Clinic at Ro- chester with them. The Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota is cov- ered with designs all done in corn and contains murals made of corn and other exhibits. At thc old West Museum near the Missouri River the temperature was reported to be 106. Don's car has air conditioning, so they were comfortable in it. The Badlands of South Dakota were al- most like another planet. The Shrine of Democracy at Mount Rushmore with the presidents' heads carved in granite rock were amazing. In Wyoming, they crossed the Big Born Mountains (you watch for cattle on the mountain roads) and down to Yellowstone Park. There they saw moose, lots of buffalo and elk, as well as the geysers, boiling springs and mudpots. Irrigation was being used widely in Montana, as in most mountain areas in both counties. In the Davenport arca of Washington, there is a large wheat and barley growing region and a lot of land in summer fallow. They toured a power plant at Grand Coulee Dam, then travelled through the Cascade Mountains to Bellingham, over to Victoria and the beautiful Butchart Garden. The Royal British Columbia Museum is excellent Cathedral Grove north of Nanaimo contains huge Douglas firs and pine trees. On the way to it they saw goats living on the roof of , a store - goat shelter and grass for pasture. The tulips and daffodils wcrc blooming on top of Grouse Moun- tain at Vancouver, accessible by aerial car. The: Vancouver Aquarium and the rose gardens were highlights of Stanley Park. At Hell's Gate in the Frazer Canyon, more water flows through than over Niagara Falls. Then on to Salmon Arm where they visited Darlene (Hayter) Babych at her beautiful little farm. Marshall was in Fort McMurray at the time. It was raining and cold whcn they wcrc at Lake Louise. The motel they stayed in at Can - more had housed the Russians dur- ing the winter Olympics. The ncw Tyrrell Museum of Lalcantology at Drumheller has a marvelous display of dinosaurs and pre ice -age histo- ry• They crossed into Saskatchewan in the Cypress Hills which have an elevation nearly as high as Banff. Brandon, Man. had day -long ccle- brations for Canada Day. They' ' watched a "linament" ball game at ,the park, and saw the fireworks • from their motel. They spent a couple of days with cousins Gerald and Marj Jefferson at Atikokan, and again with broth- er John and Norma Jefferson at Sault Ste. Marie. They saw a lot 01 oil wells oper- ating in the West in both coun- tries. The land constantly hanged, especially in the States. were ripening at tikokan where they've had normal rainfall. At the Soo', even the blueberry plants arc dried up.