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Times -Advocate, October 9, 1996
FAMTI,Y
Exeter teen Meaghan O'Rourke, left, is participating in a private exchange program with Kar-
en Fox from New Zealand.
Exchange students cross
cultures for an education
By Chris Skalkos
T -A Reporter
EXETER - Sometime today, a 14
-year-old girl in Exeter will sit in
front of a computer to read an E-
mail letter from her family living
half way around the world.
Karen Fox is from Queenstown,
New Zealand. She is living with the
O'Rourke family in Exeter while
participating in a one-year private
exchange program with Meaghan
O'Rourke, also 14.
Fox and O'Rourke met when the
O'Rourke family was in New Zea-
land in 1993 during a teacher ex-
change program. While her father
Terry was teaching physical educa-
tion, coaching basketball and learn-
ing the sport of rugby, O'Rourke
and Fox had formed a friendship
that would eventually result in a
private exchange. Fox would come
to Canada from August to January
and O'Rourke would live in New
Zealand, with Fox's family, for the
remaining six months.
Both will continue their academic
studies in their host country; and
Fox is currently attending grade
nine at South Huron District High
School.
Since her arrival in Canada, Fox
Candidates
in Clinton
CLINTON - The Ontario Liberal
Leadership candidates will be in
the Huron riding this Thursday eve-
ning, October 10, at the Clinton Le-
gion Hall. Each of the seven candi-
dates will give a brief talk followed
by a question and answer session
with the audience.
The party membership will vote
for their choice of leader and local
convention delegates on October
19. The new leader of the Ontario
Liberal Party will be selected at
Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on
November 30. This person will re-
place Lyn McLeod and become the
official Leader of the Opposition
for Ontario.
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has enjoyed the usual tourist attrac-
tions with the O'Rourkes-Niagara
Falls, Canada's Wonderland, white
water rafting in Ottawa and a sce-
nic train ride through northern On-
tario. However, it's the things we
take for granted that have amused
her most.
"I like to look at corn fields be-
cause I've never seen them before,"
said Fox who would normally gaze
at a snow capped mountain land-
scape while in her homeland.
In a country with 60 million
sheep, lamb is a staple on any menu
and she is overwhelmed by the va-
riety of North American dishes
made without Iamb. Driving on the
right hand side of the road is some-
thing she will never get used to,
and standing for the playing of our
national anthem before morning
classes begin seems strange since
this isn't done in New Zealand
schools .
O'Rourke said since she has al-
ready been to New Zealand for an
extended period of time she under-
stands the culture shock Fox is go-
ing.ihraugh..... _.__...�.•- .
"People who live here are not ex-
cited by the same things that amaze
her," said O'Rourke adding she
went through a similar experience
getting used to
New Zealand's three channel tel-
evision system, watching herds of
sheep along the side of every road
they travelled and referring to July
as being the middle of winter.
Witnessing the difference be-
tween two people who are alike in
many ways with the exception of
where they come from, is part of
the overall education that comes
from travelling half way around the
globe.
"I'm seeing the world and I'm
experiencing a different culture.
You can't get that in a classroom,"
said Fox who admits being away
from her parents has allowed her to
mature, even though her pangs of
homesickness were one of the most
difficult parts of the exchange.
When she returns to New Zea-
land in January she will un-
doubtedly return home with a great-
er appreciation for her country and
a better understanding of Can -
place het friend Meaghan-
calls home.
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ACROSS
1 Paste users
1 Otalgia, more
commonly
14 Puts up with
20 Rue the day
21 Genus
subcategory
22 Genetic oddity
23 Start of a quip:
2 wds.
24 Devise
25 Stage actress
Myrtil
26 Messy areas
27 Recyclable item
28 Give a yank
29 "— — Woman"
30 Even scores
31 'You betcha"
32 Part 2 of the
quip: 3 wds.
37 That man's, in
Le Mans
38 Provide the
provender
40 Mind readers?:
abbr.
41 Lamprey
42 '— Dallas"
44 Typos and such
47 Coal box
49 Part 3 of the
quip: 5 wds.
55 Lean-to
57 Merit
58 Common —
59 Actress West
60 Lasting mark
61 Uno plus due
63 Pituitary
product
65 Gratuity
66 Actress Hagen
67 Hockey great
68 Some execs.
69 Pad 4 of quip
70 Let off steam
71 A Brown
72 Was in first
place
73 Fix skirt length
74 Hammer part
75 Retum
analysts: abbr.
76 Proclivity
77 Greek cross
78 'Paper Moon"
Oscar -winner
80 Licentious sort
82 'Seven" star
83 Pert 5 of the
quip: 2 wds.
88 'The Daughter
of Time" author
89 Actually
existing: 2 wds.
90 Rainbow
formers
93 Brit. decoration
95 Smith or Laurel
96 Put on a show
98 Auricle
100 Speaker of the
quip: 2 wds.
105 Corrida cry
106 Appointment
107 "... man — —
mouse"
108 Square root of
Ix
109 'Notorious" star
111 Arrest: 2 wds.
112 Make it big
114 Withhold
117 End of the
quip: 2 wds.
118 Gas -station
option
119 Where some
fish spawn
120 "— Fidelis'
121 Maroon
122 High spirits
123 Directory
DOWN
1 Ground grains
2 Southpaws
3 Least appealing
4 New York
Indians
5 Foul callers
6 Sault — Marie
7 Bust out
8 Each: 2 wds.
9 Ask for more
Time'?
10 Ghana's capital
11 AFL partner
12 "— Ramsey"
13 NY time
14 Love, overseas
15 Move a muscle
16 Suffix for social
17 Latin case
18 Necessitate
19 Wineglass parts
27 She loves me
not' kern
28 "My Country, ---
P
of thee..."
31 Part of
Manchuria's
border
33 Close uupp
34 Psychological
fixation
35 Arizona plant
36 Give on credit
38 Oaf
39 Singer McEntire
43 Pkcher
45 Give a new
46 =odc
rollers
47 Waffling
containers
48InoOn otent
50 Sandra and
51PPenetrate
52 53 Hidden��
54 Minimal amount
55 Horror -movie
reaction
56 Nearly broke
60 Winner of the
most Grammys
61 My -bitty
62 Loverboy
64 Domingo and
Carreras
68 Washing the
dishes, e.g.
70 Take a look at
74 On the level?
76 Auction offers
79 Actress Ekberg
81 Ut912es
82 Ballet bend
84 British prep
school
85 Decimal bases
86 Ocleber stones
87 Press forward
oeFMost illornery
up
tie Dickens bite
94 Generous sort
95 N.S. course
97 rCopys-machine
99 Bring about
100 'Grapes of
Wrath" family
101 Separate
Tables" star
102 Triangular sign
103 Utah senator
Hatch
104 Inexperienced
106 Men, in slang
110 Guthrie's
111 Start
cont rary
from
scratch
113'Amind --
terrible thing to
waste"
114 Probed deeply
115 Card
&owner's
•
116 Probe deeply
117 Cocktail lounge
Mavis Atthill
represents
Rebekahs at
Exeter Fa i r
EXETER - Noble Grand Sis. Ma-
vis Atthill opened the meeting by
welcoming the 30 sisters present
and reading a Thanksgiving poem
"He Loads Us Daily with Benefits'.
Bro. Garnet and Sis. Olive Hicks
will be celebrating their 57th wed-
ding anniversary.
Profits from the Fair Booth were
almost S700 for the Humanitarian
Services Committee which is run
by both Oddfellows and Rebekahs.
Sis. Doris Denham gave a report
of her year's work of sending
cards, donations made to worthy
causes in memory of deceased sis-
ters, and visits to sick members
with flowers or gifts. Sis. Mavis
Atthill gave a report of a busy year.
Sis. Doris Denham will lay the
wreath at the cenotaph and attend
the Legion banquet November 11.
A donation was made to Anago
Resources Inc. for the Group Home
on Huron St. A donation was made
to the President's Project which is
for a chapel at a children's camo on
Rainbow Lake.
Sis. Mavis Atthill gave a very in-
teresting history of the Rebekah
Degree. Schyler Colfax wrote it in
1851. Sis. Atthill described an ear-
ly degree as presented in Assembly
in Toronto in 1990. Many changes
have occurred since those early
days.
Sis. Atthill entered a contest for
representatives of service clues in
Exeter at the Fall Fair. They had to
spit watermelon seeds under handi-
cap. She pit 23, but was not the
winner. However she received $10
for her effort and donated the
money to the lodge. Sis. Mary
Fisher attended the Memorial Ser-
vice for her aunt who had Alzhei-
mers. Her lodge bought her clothes
for many years until her death last
week.
The Annual Memorial Service
will be November 6. Please plan to
attend that meeting to see this
beautiful service. Next meeting Oc-
tober 16 will be Installation by
Brv9seYs'Tnsta11ation team. ' ':►';
The Rebekah Creed was repeated
and "Blest be the Tie" was sung.
Sis. Iva Blair read some jokes, Sis.
Leona Hern and Sis. Aldene Skin-
ner presented a funny skit and Sis.
Aldene read a poem. The meeting
ended with lunch.
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with Ernie Miatello
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