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Times-Advocate, 1979-11-07, Page 15 (2)Boat peop e adapting to new home La My is only 22 years old but already she has ex- perienced more than most of us will have to go through in a lifetitne. Last March, she along with nine other relatives left their home in Vietnam and it wasn't until seven'months later that they found a new home. Their new home has been provided for them by the congregation at the Christian Reformed Church in Exeter.They are living in a farm house owned by John Branderhorst about 2 miles from Hensall. La My came with her husband Dang Duc and their two small daughters Dang Zuan My, 4 and Dang Xuan Linh, 2. In the orient the last name is used first. and the wife retains the name she is given at birth even after she is married. All the names are used when referring to a person. La My's cousin La Cuong Anh, a young man, also came with them, as did her brother La Canh Minh and his wife Tang Ngoc .Phuong and their tiny baby La Zuan Lien. Two nieces, La Sieu Phuong, 14, and La Sieu Hung. 11.made the journey with them too. La My speaks a little English, and they are all learning the language. Ann Kikkert comes to their home every Wednesday to teach them their new language. Everything around the kitchen bears labels to help them say and learn the words -- "cream pitcher", "refrigerator". -calendar". La My's two young nieces are going to Clinton and District Christian School and are learning English quickly. At present they are struggling with most of their work. but, they can do math easily because the figures are the same. La My and her "family" say that they were glad to find that they didn't freeze to death the minute they stepped otf the plane in Toronto. During their stay in the refugee camp in Malasia -they were told that they woul . r e to death as soon as they br ed the cold Canadian air. Despite such horror stories La My wanted to come to Canada, becayse "it's free here, and it's far from Communism,." In 1949 La Mv's father left his home in Mainland China and went to Vietnam. At that time communism was moving into China, and they wanted no part of it. Then when Vietnam became communist in 1975, mahy of the Chinese immigrants and their descendants decided to get out. They had done it once, and they could hunt for a new homeland again. Most of the boat people leaving Vietnam are of Chinese origin or descent. By to -incidence. La My's parents are now in Strathroy. This wasn't known to La My and her brother until a sponsor from the church' in Strathroydrove their parent's over to visit them a couple of week's ago. La My says that her father who fled from China '40 years ago is glad to be in Canada This is his "last move". La My and her extended family now have relatives scattered all over the world. Some remain in Vietnam because they couldn't afford the high price of getting out. Others are in Malaysia waiting to find a new homeland. Some have set- tled in the Phillipines, others to France and some ' to United States. Their reasons for leaving were all the same - a dislike of communist living. La My says that in 1975 when Vietnam first became communist, her family was immediately given a form to fill out, detailing every possession they had. Everything they owned, large or small, had to be registered with the govern- ment, and no new purchases could be made without in- forming the authorities. La My says that there was a "policeman" for every three houses who would come in any time to see what they s SERVING COFFEE -- The "boat people' hove already picked up the Canadian custom of serving coffee. Sitting around the table with their sponsors were Alpert Vanderlaon, la My, Dang Duc, La Cuong Anh, Bea Uyl, Larry Uyl, and Peter Uyl. Teachers visit enchanted land By W I LMA OK E 1t was a trip to the Land of Enchantment Monday for the primary teachers of the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separa!e school board when they went to a professional activity day at St. James School in Seaforth. Dorothy Spence. a teacher - librarian of the Hamilton - Wentworth Catholic school boajd, led the way to the Never -Never Land through her reading of folk tales of fairies and dwarfs. elves and gnomes. ogres and giants. witches and wizards. fairy animals and enchanted people. Through her stories it was shown how gond and evil supernatural forces in folk tales act according to certain laws. if magic makes wishes come true and points the way to happiness. it does so only with struggles and hardships on the part of the hero and heronine. Though not didactic. these stories show that courage and simple goodness work their own magic. that "evil must be conquered and that grace and strength will be bestowed on those who strive ra V '1 • • • mightily and keep honest and kindly hearts:" Folk tales are only a small part of folklore. myths are a part of it too. She described the predominent kinds of folk tales such as cumulative tales with their pattern of repetition; simplicity and fun, an example The Gingerbread Man. Another kind is the talking -beast tale where the animals had exaggerated characteristics of human beings and these generally teach a lesson, an example, The Three Little Pigs. The drotls are a spall body of stories meant for fun and nonsense. such as The Eggs. Other kinds are realistic tales such as The Queen Bee, religious tales such as Our Lady's Child. romances - Cinderella, and tales of magic such as The Shoemaker and the Elves. Mrs. Spence said tales of magic or fairy tales are the heart of folk tales. She outlined how to im- plement ideas in the day's curriculum by making puppets for story hour. studies on character. and other guessing games - if you had three wishes what would they be. Canadian folklore was the theme of the afternoon session for junior and in: termediate staff. Mrs. Spence pointed out that folklore encompasses superstitions. beliefs, customs, games. songs. hallads, music festivals and holidays, dances. rhedicinal practices, art, crafts, and as well stories. myths and legends. She divided her talk into four areas - Eskimo folk tales. North American Indian folk tales, French- Canadian folk tales and English -Canadian folk tales. The Eskimo legends are sparse in detail and have a simple direct narrative line. dealing mainly with sur- vival. Indian legends in Canada are abundant. complex and varied - often a inalange of anecodotes rather than a single, unified narrative. The French-Canadian folk tales are the various com- ponents of the old world fairy tale. religious beliefs, and Indian myths chich mesh to form the classical French r • FIVE GENERATIONS -- Five generations of the Fisher family met in Seaforth when Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fisher of Swartz Creek, Michigan, brought their two-month old daughter Sarah to meet her 106-yeor old great, great grondrnother, Adello Fisher, formerly of Dashwood. Mrs. Fisher, better known as Bammie, a resident of Seaforth Manor, is shown holding her youngest descendent, Sarah. Standing behing Mrs. Fisher are, lett to right, her son Bill Fishilr, 81, of Thedford; his son, Emery Fisher, 57, of Flint, Michigan, and Emery's son, Alf red 28, the father of Sarah. Canadian legend, replete with werewolves, snowstorms, horses, priests, devils. midnight masses and so on. English Canadian folklore is pointedly regional, perhaps racial and there are many folk songs. She pointed out how to use all (hese in the day's curriculum such as in geography. history, native studies. She suggested research about major characters such as Glooscap. Raven, make soap carvings. Indian masks, write a newspaper from Indian or Eskimo villages plan a folk -fest... Mrs. Spence said that children need fairy tales to survive because they teach that everyday problems are not unique according to a noted psychologist, Prof. Bruno Bettleheim. Other workshops included Speech and Language program presented by Christine Kelly, speech pathologist with the Huron - Perth County Roman Catholic Separate school board. She spoke on deafness and detectittg a hearing im- pairment - tilting of head at angle to receive better sound, listless or in attentive behavious, failure to respond when given instructions or questioned, defective pronunciation of some sounds, • peculiar voice quality, particularly high pitch. begins to withdraw from the group... Miss Kelly gave an overview of how the speech and language program is implemented in -the school system; the identification of children in the classroom and an overview of ar- ticulation and language -remediation techniques are used with children in the schools. The English Curriculum committee presented their outline of study of the Intermediate English Curriculum which has recently been completed. They gave a workshop on the evaluation of pupils' written work. These were presented by Mrs. Mary O'Malley of Wingham, Marybel Edy of St. Marys, Robert Govenlock of Goderich and Laurie Kraftcheck. Mrs. O'Malley said as language is the core of any culture. we feel that a core curriculum in English is a necessity. Having a sound understanding of the English language and the skills to use it with accuracy, the student will be much more suc- cessful in the other disciplines where one is required to submit oral and written reports. Leslie Wood of St. James school, Seaforth, held a workshop on rocks and fossils: Michael Dewan of Stratford, held one on soil and Laurie Kraftcheck of Exeter, conducted one on small plant community to round out the Science Study curriculum. had in their home. The government began taking away things that they called illegal - the first to go was the family's small Japanese car. Next they took her father's hardware store and all his stock. La My says that all the big houses were taken so that the government could make factories. "if we have too much good food, they come and take it," La My says. The policemen would even check what was served at their table. Finally when the govern- ment had taken everything from the people, they were sent to what La My calls "a new economic camp" which sounds more like a con- centration camp. No food is provided for the people in the camps. The government expects them to clear the land themselves by hand, and they are supposed .to grow their own food. La My says that old people wouldn't live a year in those con- ditions. Fear of being sent to one of these camps out in the country prompted La My and her family to leave Vietnam. Each person had to pay the government between five and ten ounces of gold to get on one of the boats. The boat that this family was able to get on was three and three-quarters metres wide by 20 metres long. For three days and two nights it held 383 people. La My says that they were very sea sick, and that a baby was born on the boat in the crowded conditions. Her own brother's baby was only 13 days old. Several times fisherman from Thailand came on board their boat with guns and long knives and robbed them. La My says that they took what tittle baggage the people had, as well as watches, rings or any jewellery. The thieves were the most frightening part of the journey. " The boat landed at a small camp on a Malaysian island. Here they lived in a crowded refugee camp for five months. Food rations were supplied by the Malaysia Red Cross and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Rice, chicken, and cabbage was provided in small plastic bags. "It was always the same food," La My says. After five months they were moved to the Canadian Refugee camp in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Here they stayed for three weeks while un- dergoing tests and medicals for admission to Canada. And finally they were on the plane that took them to Vancouver, Montreal and eventually Toronto. They appear happy in their new home. La My says that one of the big differences is having to contend with a furnace, or the "big stove" in the basement, as she calls it. One of their helpers from the church Larry Uyl offered to put plastic over the windows to help keep the cold winds out. But La My's cousin La Cuong Anh asked him to wait fora while yet. "Too beautiful", he says, indicating the bleak fall countryside,. One problem La My has encountered is the lack of an older, person in the household. In Vietnam, there are always old people living in the homes, and before anything is done, they must ask permission. "Now I ask only myself," La My says. La My's other problem is making sure that everyone dresses -warmly; especially -- her little daughters. The children are not used to wearing heavy clothing and they find the clothes un- comfortable. In Vietnam, the - coldest it ever gets is 18 degrees celsius. La My was astounded to go shopping in London with Bea Uyl and some of the ladies of the church and see ready- made clothes hanging on racks. She was accustomed to, going to a tailor and having clothes made. When the Uyls took the new comers to a bank and opened an account for them, La My and her husband were very suspicious of leaving the money there. In Viet- nam, money left in banks had been confiscated by the government. Mrs. Uyl also took La My on tours of the local villages and towns, to such important places as the post office and grocery stores. La My can now do the shopping by herself. The Uyls, Albert Van- derlaan and some of the others in the church find it easy to sympathize with the new comers. Many of them had been immigrants from Holland themselves a few yeas ago. Albert Vanderlaan says that the main problem they had in common was the language barrier. Once the English language is mastered, many of the other problems disappear. But, Vanderlaan, says, the boat people, will probably find more problems than the Dutch immigrants had. "We were all Europeans," he pointed out. Many aspects of the Chinese -Vietnamese culture will be far different from those in Canada. However. ivlrs. Uyl adds that there is one thing we all have in common. La My and her family enjoy a good joke, and they're able to laugh. A sense of humour is an im- portant and universal thing. Shaw quits plan post The second resignation from the local planning board in as many months was received by Exeter council this week. Former mayor Bruce Shaw said that while he has enjoyed the challenges and hoped that he had made some contribution, "other pressing issues require my attention and I cannot do justice to the demands of the planning board". His resignation was ac- cepted with regret by council. Last month, veteran member Harvey Pfaff an- nounced his resignation from the board. FIRST BONSPIEL WINNERS — The Exeter Curling Club hod their first mixed bonspiel of the year Saturday. Taking the first draw was the team of Paul McKnight, Doug Pearson, Rena Mclean and Janice Brock. T -A photo Fire chief gives report GARY T. MIDDLETON During the past couple of years, we have seen a great resurgence in wood -burning appliances for domestic heating. Because wood - burning lore of past years has almost been lost, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation has prepared a booklet entitled "Heating with wood safety." The purpose of the booklet is to help members of the public select, install and operate wood -burning ap- pliances. Woodburning for heating is sensible from many points of view and under many con- ditions. but it can be ex- tremely hazardous if common sense rules are not adhered to. In selecting a wood - burning space heater or furnace, safety is an im- portant consideration. Wood fires generate alot of heat and certain elementary precautions must be _taken when selecting wood burning appliances. Proper installation is critical for fire safety and efficient operation.. Do not take any chances. eg. sparks from a chimney onto a roof. excessive heat from the Chimney cha'rring n'earbv limbers; -heht`from`the flue pipe setting fire to partition. radiant heat from the stove igniting nearby wall, embers falling, out of the stove onto the hearth. A great deal of con- sideration has to be given to the type of chimney to be used as there is a potential hazard in using an existing chimney eg. adequate condition, worth repairing or whether to have it pulled down and rebuilt. Do not take chances. Get professional advice on how to repair it, if the existing chimney is metal it must have a label stating it is a Class A or factory built chimney. For example the metal chimney connected to a gas furnace is usually not a Class A. However carefully the wood heater or furnace has been selected, the risk of fire is still great if it is operated carelessly. The main source of danger is the build-up of creosote in the chimney which can easily catch fire and cause a chimney fire. It should also be noted that the use of wood -burning devices added on to existing oil, gas or electrical furnaces ("add-ons") is specifically not recommended at the present time. To best guarantee that equipment is safe, choose one that has been tested and found to conform to a standard prepared by the Canadian Standards Association or the Under- writers Laboratories of Canada. A building permit will have to be obtained before carrying out the work and it is also recommended that your insurance policy be checked. allowing for a solid fuel or a wood burning space heater or furnace to be in- stalled. Occasional use of an open fire place may be allowed for, but the use of a wood burning heater or furnace as the principal source of heat may not be covered. You may have to pay a higher premium because of the additional fire risks in- volved. For further information please feel free to call the Exeter Area Fire Depart- ment office at 235-1981. Times- Advocate, November 7, 1979 Page 15 Excellent quality McIntosh, Spartan Spys & Red Delicious CRUNICAN BROS. 1 'h Miles South of Elginfield on Hwy 4 PHONE 666-0286 NOR11! VVHITIN/i aaGtIORO�P Real Estate Auction Sale Rescheduled due to advertising omission Real estate to be sold by Public Auction. Sat. Nov. 24, 1979 10:30 a.m. SHARP 31 Simcoe St. Exeter, Ontaro For Mr and Mrs. Dove Robinson Real Estate consists of 2 storey brick house with 2 self contained opt. units. Main floor, 2 large hvingrooms. 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms. 1 storage room. Second floor, 4 bedrooms, full basement. 1 furnace, 2 elec- tric meters, 2 driveways. Aluminum storms and screens. This house is situated on 0101 alproxrmetely 49.5' by 198' giving you a large back yard for Bor- den or ploy oreo Partial mortgage available at 10 34 %. Second mortgage available. Terms of real estate 10o%o day of sole bolor.ce in days. Sold subject to o reasonable reserve bid Norm Whiting, Auctioneer For Further Information Call Exeter 235-1964 3L Bailiff Auction Egerton Auction has been favoured by Brennon Bailiff Service to sell, complete stock and equipment, of Doerr Food Market in Zurich. To be sold Tues. Nov. 13th at Location in Zurich starting at 6:30 P.M. This sale on view at 5:30 P.M. sale day, Terms Cash. Stock, alt types conned goods, vegetables, frozen foods, candies, pop, cigarettes. tobacco, cookies. soaps, polishes, cleaning materials, records, waxes. overs5000 worth of stock and equipment. Biro meat sow mode 22, Marquis 2 -door dairy case. 22 cu ft. Admiral freezer, 18 cu. ft. Admiral freezer Betwood 20 cu. ft. freezer, Williams freezer Hobart meat slicer, Hobart coffee mill, Hobart meat grinder, Anchor cash register. N.C.R. cash register, Dayton scale, pan scale, other scales; balance scale, large Curtis open freezer, Universal open freezer. Jensen - Millen check out unit, 14 ft. illuminated rack. with 10 bins, roll dispensers, bog cupboard, cigar -cigarette cabinet, hand baskets. 6 ft. pop shelf, drop leaf ser- vice counter, 5 ft. candy display rack. spice rock. 2 large round store mirrors. 8 ft Ruddy meat counter Curtis open display meat counter, 1 Superior ellec tric store sign, fire extinguishers. 24" x 18" 12 paper cutters, 6 shopping carts. 5 ft bin islands, 2 Curtis walk-in cooler doors units for walk-in coolers meat block, first aid kit, meat hooks. 2 condensing units, 2 stock carts, displox'stands, new shovel, step ladder, over 140 ft. of shelving 6-7 shelves high. 1 complete centre island, fans; ceiling. window and ex haust fans. This is just o partial list many other a- ticles not listed. No reserve everything must be sold. All large articles must be removed from store following day after sale. All stock to be sold off shelves. all equipment can be seen operating This sale conducted by Egerton Auction to be held at Superior Store in Zurich, on Tues. Nov. 13th starting at 6:30 P.M. sharp. We handle all type auctions, complete or partial estates, bankruptcies. For information call W. Denstedt sale manager at 455-4151 London. This sale at Main -Corners in Zurich We buy complete lots, old silver corns, gold corns wotches, etc. RICK HENRY LUCAN FORD MAIN ST. LUCAN ART BELL Rick Henry, president of Lucan Ford, is proud to announce that Mr. ArtJell has joined our company as new car sales manager. Art brings with him a wealth of knowledge in the car industry, with 25 years service in the Lucan and Exeter area. Art extends on invitation to all his many friends and customers to visit him at Lucbn Ford and compare our very competitive prices.