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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-06-19, Page 30Page I8A Times -Advocate, June 19, 1985 No//and exebange students in area Nine students from ltolland will be working on ()Mario farms this sum- mer thanks to a Netherlands Student Exchange co-ordinated by Centralia College and Ridgetown College. In return, ten students, four from Centrali nd six from Kndgetown, departed on May 7 for a summer of European-st le farmin . This was ar- VISITORS FROM HOLLAND - Here are the visitors from Holland, on an exchange trip arranged with Centralia College, with their Canadian hosts. From left: back: hosts Ken Scott, Mariana -Scott, Len Veri, and Kevir. Lewis. Front row: visitors Jurjen Wassenaar, Willem Van den Brand, and Acfger Banken. Kaiti kissed me when we met, Jumping from the car she came in. was weary and h e ling sad That health and wealth had passed me by. 1 know I'm growing old but lel me add That Kaiti kissed mc. A poor parody on a poem written more than 150 years ago by Leigh Hunt -- the brilliant English essayist who lived in Keat's shadow for years. But Kaiti kissed me. Although the sun was shining and the weather hot and humid, I felt a warmth go through this old. decrepit body when Kaiti kissed me. Kaillin is our youngest grandkid. She's saucy and sweet and warm and wonderful and bold and beautiful. She will be four in a few days and just to have her look at me heads off my lowering old age. The grass was greener. the sky bluer and the world more wonderful when she kissed me. It was a spontaneous smooch, un- solicited and unexpected. She is an af- fectionate little lady and when Kaiti • rrnnnnnnunununrrnnnnnnuimnnninure Huron -Apothecary Ltd. J.T. Wilson Pharmacist Phone 235-1982 440 Main St., Exeter, Ont. 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We had been out for more than two hours and had seen, oh, such wonder- ful things: An old silver kettle sitting on the stump of -a maple tree; huge platform fungi on an oak tree: two blackbirds battling for a perch on a fencepost; cows and trees and wildflowers. We had smelled the enervating odor of new -mown hay and the pungent odor of fresh horse manuare. We had seen monsters and a unicorn in the clouds. We even heard a groundchuck whistle and scared a bobolink from his nest. This old body of mine is slowly betraying me. I spent three months off work this winter and spring. Doc- tors replaced an artery to my leg. Kaiti and I did not ride during the con- valescence. She displayed wonderful atience for such a oun'un. Today. we went riding and as we unsaddled the mare, hung up the tack and walked through the barnyard, she skipped ahead of me and waited. Her chunky arms were held out, in- vitingly. Iler hair waved in the breeze as 1 stopped to pick her up And she kissed me. "I had a wonderful ride, PawBob. 1 love you." Can heaven's call be sweeter? Tell me of love; talk to me of youth and Romeo and Juliet. Talk to me of the love of man for woman and woman for man, of mankind and womankind and girls and boys. 'Palk of greater love hath no man and Romulus and Remus, of the love of country and kith and kin. Nothing is as important as love and nothing I write and nothing you can say can speak to me as eloquently and as beautifully as my little girl's kiss. All. all is more worthwhile now. No matter how poor I am, how low my bank account is, how much I dislike my job or whether the old car will make it through another winter. The world is cleaner. brighter and cares fly away on the summer wind Because Kaiti kissed me today. Noigilt A TWO -HEADED CALF A seven year-old Holstein cow gave birth to a two -headed calf Saturday morning on the Zurich area farm of Larry Merrier. The animal also with two tails only lived five minutes. Horse group It Janice Bishop June I:f. the Exeter .111 horse and pony club met at the Pinedale Hotel in Grand Bend The first topic was the judging competition. May 23. Richard Hopw kve a report on the different Glass�e 'judged. All club members plaerey`'en' Congratulations Ito all who pariicipafed If 'you're looking for carpet or vinyl for a small area or an entire house • Save Time • Save Money • See us First Do it yourself or hove our instoller Ed Allen do it for ou 1 make plans Jackie Scholtroff introduced the guest speaker, a field representative from Shur -Gain Feeds. We discussed the types df nutrients found in feeds and what types of supplements should be added to keep a horse healthy. We learned the parts of the digestive tract of a horse and discuss- ed their functions. We learned how to look for good quality hay judging by appearance and smell. The Exeter 4-11 horse and pony club is organizing a Reach for the Top team. The competition will be heft, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the ltensall Community ('entre. Hensall. On Ju- ly 13 there will he a county horse show in Dungannon. Our club will he com- peting against other clubs in the coun- ty. July 20 our club will be holding a rodeo at (he Exeter Fairgrounds in Exeter. Speclalors are welcome. Next meeting is June :Mat 7:30 p.m. at Marie 1)eBruyn's farm. Club members aretreminded to bring a feed sample and decide if they will he participating in the county show at Dungannon ranged with Bijzondere Hogere Land- bouwschool in Friesland, an agricultural college at Leeuwarden. Holland. This new exchange program willdo more than answer the call of hopeful young travellers this summer. It will allow the Dutch and Canadian students to teach their hosts something about farming from a dif- ferent perspective, while learning in return thewaysof their host country. Three Huron County farmers are involved in the program. They are: Ken Scott, who has a farm near Seaforth: Len Veri, an Exeter area farmer; and Kase Van den Heuvel, of KR 2, Goderich. Scott and his wife have a small dairy operation. Originally neighbours of the Scotts were ap- proached, but when they couldn't take a student they asked the Scotts. and Centralia approved the arrangement. The Scotts will board Jurjen Wassenaar. Veri is also taking a student for the first time. He grows vegetables like .cauliflower and cabbage that aretrlso popular crops in Holland, and hopes that his student, Willem van den Brand, can help him with these. Veri was approached by Cerft•alia to take a student. Foremen Henry Gruyaert and Kevin Lewis will be supervising Willem most of the time. Van den Heuvel has a corn and pig operation. He will be hosting Adger Banken. The exchange is necessary for the Dutch students as part of their diploma work. They are required to have work experience, and a certain amount of it must be out of their home county. Canada is not the only coun- try they could choose: other students from this school are'in the USA, rr in various European countries, -Some of the students will stay on for a month or so afterwards to tour Canada. Centralia hada hard time finding Canadian students who wanted to work overseas: it's not part of their curriculum. Ibn Orth is the Centralia manager of student affairs, and he gave an' orientation speech to the Dutch students and their host families. He expressed the hope that next year, spurred on by the stories of this year's group, more Centralia students will take advantage 01 the exchange program. Orth and Cen- tralia prinicpal J.D. Jamieson will be visiting the Dutch students on the host farms in a few weeks. - Mrs. Josephine Deichert of Zurich will be 90 on Sunday June 23. 1985. 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