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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-02-24, Page 4Page 4 Times -Advocate, February 24, 1988 Times Established 18-1 Advocate Established .1881 - Amalgamated__1924 • Ames advocate Published Each Wednesday Morning al Exeter, Ontario, NOM ISO Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386. Phone 519.235-1331 rtas eNA «�o ROSS HAI CH Editor HARR1 011, RIES ILM BECKEiI Publisher It Advertising Manager • DOh SMITH Composition Manager Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada: $25.00 Per year; U.S.A. $65.00 Time for recognition While the spotlight has been on Olym- pic athletes at Calgary during the past week, some recognition was given to worthy participants right at home. Celebration '88 is a federal government program designed to help Canada's Olympic year by presenting deserving recipients with medals and certificates. The nominations for these awards were made by local residents. Most municipalities in Huron 'partici- pated in the Celebration '88 program by presenting medals to a male and female athlete, coach, official, volunteer and sponsor: We personally watched as Huron -Bruce MP Murray Cardiff made the Usborne presentations at the Kirkton-Woodham Winter Carnival -and at a recent Exeter council meeting for town winners. Pictures of the Exeter and Usborne. medal and certificate winners appeared in last week's issue of this newspaper. In these two instances, the awards went • to persons who have made unselfish and outstanding contributions to their munic- ipalities. Very seldom do we take the time to re- alize what some people do for their com- munities and Celebration '88 allowed for this special recognition. Although the medals were the top awards, certificates went to others who have contributed to the local sports. world, some over many. years. It may not be fair to single out some of the winners, but we will take that chance -for rebuke by mentioning the sponsors and volunteers in Exeter and Usborne. Any team or organization will not last long without sponsors: In Usborne it was "Will you fix lunch for the children? I've got to go into town." There was a stringof instructions, and 1 heard what Elizabethsaid, but I didn't understand it. The information must have come in on line 2 while I was pondering something else on line 1. By the time I' realized it, she was gone. Well, this had happened before. It wasn't the end of the world. I'm a fairly resourceful person, and fixing a lunch for the kids was no big deal. I had done it many times. I opened fridge number one and reviewed the situation.. No leftovers to heat up in the microwave. I'd be sure to get flak if I forgot to use leftovers. I checked fridge number two. No little dishes of spaghetti or mashed potatoes to use up. There was a yogurt container filled with generally brown stuff, smelling vaguely of meat, but it was only gravy of some kind. In the meat drawer I found an uninteresting variety 9,f cheeses. There were lots of eggs, but I didn't feel like eggs. Besides, the kids could never agree on how they wanted their eggs. I am tired of making hard-boiled eggs for Duncan, scrambled for Stephanie, poached for Alexander, and more or less soft-boiled for me. Why not whip up something interesting? I am no chef. But I have created the occasional imaginative salad in my time. So I looked for inspiration in the pantry. Yes, we have a pantry. Elizabe<th,is a model housekeeper. Not only does she keep a pantry that is better stocked than your • '•average comer grocery store, she has an 'intricate inventory system Kirkton Market owner Bill Waghorn who has supported everything going on in the township and Kirkton-Woodham particularly for as long as.we can remem- ber. In Exeter, R.E. Pooley Exeter branch of the Royal Canadian Legion president Dean McKnight accepted the sponsor medal. Here is a group which pours liter- ally thousands of dollars each year into minor sports. In the volunteer category it was Murde- na Glover in Exeter. She has been very active on the executives of the Exeter jun- ior Hawks and the senior Mohawks.and before that was an ardent supporter of any club her sons played on. • - The dedication was shown by Charles and Connie Kernick in Usborne. They have been behind .all. Usborne minor sports, placed a ball. diamond on their farm for some time and outside of sports have been very community minded as foster parents. The other medal winners in .Exeter were Ronalee Bogart, Dave Shaw, Ron Bogart and Lyle Little while Carrie Simpson, Mark Foster, Wayne Rowe and Jeff Borland won the other - Usbdrne awards. While the focus is on Olympic athletes in Calgary, it's great that we can recog- nize those at home who affect our lives and those of our children from day to day Congratulations to those who attained the gold medal level right at home. You can be just as proud of your achievements as any winner at Calgary. All should be given a six.: Fixing lunch thatassuresconstant circulation and instant replenishment. I had a wide choice. I could have prepared my famous chopped chicken salad, my devastating devilled ham salad, or my titillating turkey salad. But I PETER'S POINT • thought it was a good day for the tasty tuna salad. . So I opened two 198 -gram cans of Solid White Japanese Albacore (why couldn't they chuck in the extra two grams to make it an even number?). A quick look at the list of ingredients told me that only vegetable broth, vegetable oil and salt had been added. 1 plunked the contents into a large bowl and added three blobs of mayonnaise, two sticks of finely -cut celery, a dash of lemon juice, one sprinkling of black pepper and two sprinklings of curry powder. I stirred the whole thing vigorously and tasted it. I decided that it needed more pepper and more curry; but in the end I adjusted it a bit by increasing the Mayonnaise. It was just right. Then i buttered some bread, set the table, poured the milk, and called the kids. "Come and get it! Dad has worked hard to p?apare a nourishing lunch for you." - "What are you giving us, Dad?" . Alexander asked with a tiny bit of apprehension in his voice. "What • by Ross (laugh do you mean, giving you? I have made this lunch from scratch. I have created a delicious salad for you. Do you believe that the chef at the Green Valley would love to steal this recipe from me?" "No," Alexander said. "No what?" "I don't believe you." "I'm not hungry," Duncan announced. In spite of these slightly discouraging remarks, I placed some of the tuna salad on pieces of buttered bread in front of each child. "I want you to try this, Duncan," I said, "if you really don't like it, you don't have to eat it, but you won't get anything else for lunch. This is it." Stephanie finished one quarter of a tuna salad sandwich. Alexander finished two halves of two quarters of a tuna salad sandwich. Duncan didn't get beyond his first bite. 1 was annoyed. But there was no point in telling the ki I would have given for 'a. cast Lunch like that when 1' w a kid. had gone that route befor ,ansi� was leading nowhere. I cleared the table, rattling the dishes a little mote than Necessary. "I'm so glad you all enjoyed the lunch I made for you," i said, asi allowed them to leave the table. "I really enjoyed the milk, bad!" Duncan smiled. I didn't want any tuna salad left over,iso I ended up eating chore than I should have, which always puts me into a bad mood. When Elizabeth came home, she inquired: "How was the, casserole?" "What casserole?" She opened the microwave 'oven. Miraculously, a beautiful corned • Please turn to page 5 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 Published by J.W. Eedy Publications Limited I BROKE IT DURING: THE OL`f MPIC SKI JUMP COMPETITION .., WNEN NE KICKED HTV SET TO STOP T FLILKEIllhe n Still proud to b e Canadian" A couple of months ago we wrote a column entitled Proud to bc a Canadian.. Well, that same feeling has continued into the new year, but came to a new, high as wc watched thc official opening of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. The adJectives uscd to de- scribe the excitement and pa- geantry of thc opening arc many and varied and colourful. Vete- ran columnist of the Toronto Star Milt Dunnell called it a "hclluva show".. It was an emotional and sensa- tional show. Could one come up with anything better than a. na- tive Canadian' singing O Cana- da. Rick Hansen coming out in his wheelchair to feel thc torch added another touch. Unlike some of thc American presentations at Olympics and Super Bowls, this was a sample of the real Canada. No pretens- es, we were shown exactly as we arc. By the cheers of the overflow crowd, it appcanid as if they re- alized here was a presentation with special sincerity and down to earth enthusiasm. It showed an authentic image of Canada and the west. Officials of the Olympics did a tremendous job in keeping se- cret the identity of the person to carry the Olympic Torch, the fi- nal distance up the steps to light the Dig fame. While thc final bearer was .a 12 year-old Calgary figure skat- er Robyn Perry, there were ru- mours right up to the final mo- ment that it may be .the world's fastest human lift Johnston to do the final fcw yards. Thanks to a snowstorm the same day, a cancellation of one of our assignments allowed us to watch most of the proceed- ings and we did it by switching around and getting bits from two different networks. In our opinion ABC edged out CTV as far as opening day cover- age was concerned. Lloyd Ro- bertson of CTV tried to identify the native Canadian who was singing 0 Canada in his -own lan- guage when it was actually being sung. It was exciting to see close to 1500 athletes from the 57 partici- pating countries come marching in behind their banners, but the most spectacular sight to us at From the 4 editor's disk by Mi Ross Haugh !cast was seeing all of the athletes sitting on the terrace at the end of the stadium. The only hitch in the opening ceremonies came when the Rocky Mountains collapsed and were cartcd away. The United States commentators played up thc wild west a little more than necessary, but there were Indians and chuckwagons included in the opening. Because of the secrecy of the final torch bearer, the Soviet News Agency Tass was a little. upset because of al0 hour time difference all their papers "had gone to bed" when it was dis- closed. One' Calgary retailer spent a lot of money to try and get Russian athlctcs in to his stores. Mark's Work Wearhouse spent $30,000 in advertising in the Calgary 1lcr- ald, all in. the Russian language featuring blue jeans. This com- modity appears to be scarce in the Soviet Union and very popular. We hope the advertising was worthwhile. While the Calgary firn1 has 135 stores -across Canada, the adver- tising in Russian was only in Calgary: The owner explained, That's -where the Russ:inns will be". Onc sore spot for most Canadi- ans watching the Olympics has been the pattern of the figure skating judges. The inconsisten- cy seemed to stick out when Sea - forth native Lloyd Eisler Ind his partner Isabelle Brasseur skated their first performance. To this uneducated skating eye, thc effort by the two Canadians - appeared to bc almost flawless, but they got the same number of points as a pair from the Soviet Union did after one fell. Making a good first impression *apparently is not considered a requisite in figure skating. Ac- cording to one of the announcers, "the judges must have a book on you" and this was the first time most had seen Eislcr with his new partner. Eislcr is no stranger in this arca. He appeared at an Exeter I.ions Sportsmen's Dinner quite a few years ago with his partner at that time Laurie-Baicr of Mitch--. ell. We like to tell our friends at the Exctcr figure skating club that wc can do the figure eight. That's right, two fours. There arc always controversies inplympics. We hope this time none of the problems arc of a po- litical nature. Let's leave it to the athlctcs, not only to prove which is best, but have a good time while enjoying good old fa- shioned Canadian hospitality. All Canadians should again be proud of their country and, the province of Alberta and the city of Calgary in particular as they portray our image to the world. A strange setting This week's column has a strange setting, a washroom in a large mall A man came in just after me with a little curly -headed boy of about three years in age. This little guy was bright and alert and had a thousand -questions crammed into one or two min- utcs. "Why is that long handle on the wall, daddy?" "That's so people with handi- caps can stand up easier." "What's handicap, Daddy?" "Maybe somebody iq a wheel- chai r." "Oh!" A very brief silence while he mulled that one over. "So he wouldn't fall in the toi- let?" "Right." Then on to the sink, "Why do we have to wash our hands, dad- dy?" The man looked over at me and grinned, then answered with the same patience with which he'd By the Way by Syd Fletcher answered all the rest. As they went,out the door the little guy was still asking qucstions_all thc way down. the hall and was still getting lots of answers. I like that. The world has a fair share. of people who don't have time to spend on the children they've brought into the world. Those kids come into school about three steps behind thc ones whose parents have taken a few moments out of their own busy schedules to sit down and listen to thc kids' problems and ques- tions or havchlad time to read the child a story befprc bedtime. My parents did it a little differ- ently but it was the same idea. We used to sing in the car. Whenever we had to go on a little trip all we had to do was ask Dad to sing and he'd start a chorus in his deep bass voice. Soon every- body was Singing, picking out some part to harmonize with, get- ting that warm family feeling that goes right down to the very mar- row of your bones, a feeling of togetherness and understanding that you carry with you for the rest of your life.