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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-08-29, Page 17 (2)• 2' ., -fir. 4,,0 - • t'. TRICK SHOT — Bruce McNea. Burlington. tries for a trick shot between the spokes of the spinning wheel -Christopher Thompson. Grand Bend, gives him advice. white Karen Lilia of Dundas looks on. A LITTLE DAMP — John Fellows of Sarnia decided that a good swing is all that's needed to get out of this water hazard at Beach Golf. Page 1A • dr xret tat AIMING FOR THE CORN FIELD — Harvey Webb of Grand Cove Estates says he comes to the driving range about three times a week for exercise Some golfers are able to land the • ball beyond the distance markers and into the corn field ImTes..-Advocate vu EA COUPE AUGUST 29, 1979 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Variety of courses in Grand Bend All kinds of golfers have fun You may not realize it, but Grand Bend is a golfer's paradise. All ages can golf. and any aspect of the sport can be practised. The business of miniature Mary's musings golf has become highly competetive in Grand Bend. You can find two good courses on Main Street, and Track 'N Trail. three miles south of Grand Bend boasts a golf course in the woods. Lloyd Martin of Beach Golf on Main Street says that his course was professionally designed. It ••1 rf .c RESTORING THE PAST — Carpenter at Lambton Heritage Museum Harm Douma has been busy returning this pioneer shanty to its original condition. Douma had to replace one wall where the pioneer cabin had been attached to a larger brick house when its days as a home were over. Restoring pioneer cabin . latest miseum project Restorationof a pioneer shanty at Lambton Heritage Museum is nearly. complete. Museum carpenter Harm .Douma has been busy during the past few weeks making the pioneer home as authentic as possible. The small pioneer home was built in Bosanquet township in 1857, on the farm of Mrs. James Tudhop. When Mrs. Tudhop's son-in-law, James Walden, bought the "farm in the 1870's, he built a new brick house and moved the pioneer home up to the back door. to be used as a .summer kitchennd, wood The farm remained in the Walden family until 1955 when it was sold to Earl Hilborn. In 1976, Peter Van Riel bought the farm and in 1978 fire destroyed the brick home, but the pioneer shanty survived. - Fred Walden, a Thedford area historian who has donated much of his personal collection to the museum, was intrumental -in -having the pioneer shanty moved to the museum. jyalden has been helping Do ma restore the cabin.. • • countered was the removal of wood panelling from the interior of the cabin. Underneath the panelling seven layers of wall paper had to be scraped off. Finally they found the walls of the cabin and have left them without insulation the way the pioneers lived. - The exterior of the cabin is • done in what the pioneers called "boa•d and batten". Large planks were used, and then, narrow strips of wood were put over the cracks between the planks. The wood was purchased from a sawmill in Widder which was later named Thedford. The museum hopes that when funds permit they will' be able to replace the steel roof that has been added since the cabin was built with cedar shingles. They think that originally the Single car accident in • Damage was estimated at: over $4000 in a single car accident that sent two young people to hospital on August 21. The car was driven by' Thomas Kneale of Gravid Bend when it collided with a tree at Brewster Boulevard in Southcott Pines. Kneale and his passenger Debbie Carter received minor in- juries and were taken by ambulance to hospital in Exeter. the accident ..was investigated by the Pinery detachrtient of the Ontario Provincial Police. The Pinery OPP laid 34 charges tutdkr the provincial - parks act, and 18 under the highway traffic act during the week of August 19 to 25. They charged 18 people under the liquor licence act, and one person under the narcotic control act. One impaired driver was charged. Grand Bend detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police reported a very quiet week, with no accidents. Their office will be closing on September 5. BY MARY ALDERSON Things can grow on you - even inanimate objects. Even things you don't think you'd like at all. I've been telling my husband to sell his sports car ever since we got married. Now, when it gets right down to it, I hate to see it go. It just didn't make sense to keep it. He only- t o-Ve it in summer, arta now he spends all his spare time in his boat. A Triumph TR -6 was just an expensive toy cluttering up the driveway. Owning a foreign sports car is also a very expensive hobby. You have to be friends with a good mechanic. Fortunately, Victor is. It was great - he and his mechanic friends used to do trade-offs. For minor repairs on the car, Victor would cut the mechanic's kids' hair. This worked well foe a while. Doing three hair cuts would pay for an oil change and grease job. But the mechanic had a very observant wife. Each time the TR -6 was in the garage and Victor would k make a house call with his scissors, shNiwould watch closely. Pretty soon, - she figured out how to trim the family's hair herself. And Victor had to start paying for all those little repairs. Parts for foreign cars are not only expensive, they can also be very hard to get. On one of the few days we took • the car fora drive early this • was just a clump of in- sulation inside the rusty muffler. I guess that I should ex- plain' that I have never driven the TR -6. Only two people were allowed to drive that "baby". - Victor and his mechanic. And I never really wanted to drive it, either. because I knew that if I put even the slightest scratch on it. I would suffer for a long time. But then. one damp morning my old faithful Penelope Pinto refused to start. I was late for an ap- pointment. and in desperation I grabbed the key for the Triumph off the hook. I played with the choke the 'same way 1 had seen Victor do it, and soon she was rumbling comfortably. i was off. By noon the sun was hot, cabin had a roof of wooden and I put the roof down. I got shingles. out on the highway, and yen The shanty was in very passed other vehicles. poor "condition when it (Something you never do in arrived at the museum. an old Pinto). Moving the building had i always complained to loosened many of the joints, 'Victor about getting my hair and the floor was falling messed up whenever we apart. "I was so went for rides with the top discouraged, I didn't know down. But when you're in the where to• begin," Douma driver's seat things are says. different. Suddenly the wind One of the first jobs was to in your hair feels good. This tear out all the old electric car was actually fun to drive wiring, The cabin now holds - what he had been telling me a wood stove for heating, and all along was true! candles for light. It was peppy, the gears Walden has furnished the shifted easily and i had a cabin -with authentic pieces great time. That evening i frons thou early days. ,The , summer, we noticed that the told Victor that I had been rood►:hdldsAite; IWO `rttlinblirlg •noise wast all stove, kitchen table, a china than usual. • day, an nothingone cupboard and a wash stand. An inspection bought bad wrong. "i wish you would Walden .also donated a hand news. There was indeed a have told ,.me you were hewn bench --a piece of log hole in that muffler which -taking my car, so 'f could crudely cut in half with had recently cost close to' have worried," he said wooden legs. The other half of the cabin contains two rope beds. Walden donated a wooden cradle that had been in his family for several generations. Making the.new.wood they used for repairs match the old wood has kept Douma and Walden busy. Douma hockey stic has iso ttuilt a r�^,�', ;: �,�. - s trotih to replace the more terr ble. modern one that someone immediately we took the has added through the years. • car for a new muffler and Visitors to the museum gravely explained the have been able to tour the problem to the muffler pioneer home while the man . When we told him it reconstruction has been was for a British Leyland going on.' Many of the car, his mouth twitched in a tourists have told the car- smile. He got under the car penter that -he shouldn't be for a look, and came up working -on an old pioneer laughing.-.-_ home with an electric drill It seems that some strange and saw. Douma goes ahead" mufflers are insulated with a with his modern tools. -fuzzy ,lining. i guess that's "People are too critical," he what makes them so ex - says, And then he laughs. pensive. Our dead animal 8100. But that wasn't the sadly. worst of it. After that I used the'ex- A furry animal was inside cuse that the Pinto was too our Muffler. Its -fuzzy- baek stuffy qn hot days: 1 told him was falling out of the hole. I couldn't get the Pinto It appeared to us that a started. squirrelor kitten, had I drove the TR -6 every day crawled inside the muffler 'squid. ' - and died of carbon monoxide Soon he began to -accuse poisoning. A poke with a me of going out and pulling oved it - rigor , wires off the,, motor of the We felt I'lnta so than It. 'Wouldn't start. in the beginning !referred to if jokingly as my husband's "tey", but then I began to treat it more af- fectionately. We became very attached. i even learned how to put the top up by myself in sudden rain storms without getting very wet. Then the other day, Victor eft e home and said that a fellow wants to buy the Triumph. He thought I'd be pleased. 1, UP TO PAR Tom Sanders 4 Of London orae uses oolong • On the Threo Par Course The , ourse rs owned by his grandfather Morley Sanders features several water traps, and Martin says the player is supposed to take the ball out of the water and mark up a stroke. But most players just stand • there and swing - soaking themselves and anyone near them. "I suppose we should enforce the rules, but they seem to get a bang out of it." Martin says. Beach Golf. features several tricky holes, and some players say they find it "challenging". The 15th hole in particular has an unusual twist. It features two parts. First the ball goes up a ramp. and it has a choice of two holes to go into. The first hole takes the ball into a • lower area quite close to the final hole - the second hole takes it into a lower area around the corner from the final hole. it's not obvious which of the first holes leads where. Many groans or squeals of delight come from that area. Play Centre miniature golf is the only course in the area which boasts electrically powered hazards. On one hole you're forced to shoot your ball under a bunch of bobbing bowling pins, on another you have to shoot through the spokes of a whirling wheel The spinning pin wheel has been known to drive a golfer crazy with its constant movement. Another difficult shot is "hoopla" on the'lOth hole. A good solid putt is required to take ,the ball through the hear the advice "eat .0 wheaties" being given to those with weak shots. Like Play Centre. Goofy Golf at Track and Trail features- brightly colored hazards. This course was designed and made by owner Ken Fernald. it covers a much greater Please turn to page 3A ' t7� �c w• • .' *2'4' , • .•:. t'+ .- LITTLE PUTTER - Alexi Srlvins 5. of Toronto. concen- trates on a long putt at Play Centre., Her grandfather. Gordon Friesen who is spending the summer rn Grand Bend. watches her from the tee '' i{s "11 • . r4 Xy- Q1' qxr rs}tr "s%. . . •!;'a �.� +•;•'�. •f. ON WHEELS -- Elise Engel. 16, uses a garden tractor to haul an automatic golf ball "picker upper' The handy implement tosses the balls over the discs and into baskets. Elise works for her mother at the driving range in Grand Bend.