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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-06-20, Page 5hardening club visits Estates By ANNE WALPIR The Grand . Bend 4H Gardening Club held a meeting Tuesday night at Lorraine Gill's home. They talked about weeds, flowers and tools. They went to Grand Cove Estates to visit four places. At Mrs. Cornford's they viewed trees and a rose garden. Mr. and Mrs. White shoaled their fish pond. At Urquhart's and Nathan's members saw some flower beds. Doris Bestardaccompanied the girls and their leaders. GRADUATES — Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Vanden- Boomen, RR 2, Hensall, are pleased to announce that their daughter Trudy received an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from King's Col- lege, University of Western Ontario on June 9, 1984. The girls wish to thank the t people that allowed them to visit their homes. Sunday, June 10, Eleanor and Orval Hayter -of Grand Bend celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with an Open House field in their home. Many people from here attended and offered their Congratulations. The Hayters were former residents of our area. Wednesday I accompanied Elmer and Idena Desjardine and Lorraine Gill to Wyoming for a banquet, program and a short meeting of former teachers. A car load from Grand Cove Estates also attended. Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Love and family attended the wed- ding of Mr. atilt Mrs. Gary Wort (nee Lisa Mollard) Saturday June 9at St. James Anglican Church in Parkhill: Greenway United Church held a successful strawberry and ham supper Saturday night. Many people from here at- tended the various events which were held to celebrate McGillivray Central Schools 25th anniversary on the weekend. In the absence of Rev. Peebles who was attending Anniversary Services at New Liskeard Sunday Mr Gary Wilcox spoke on "Have You Attended His University". Gary is a lay preacher from St. Paul's United Church in Sarnia. A.beautiful new cabinet was placed in the Sanctuary of the church by the Willing Workers. Ken Eagleson made the cabinet. Many thanks to these people for the gift. Are you between 60 and 71? This may be a good time to find out about your RRSP annuity options. Geo. A. Godbolt C.L.U. Annuity Broker Devon Bldg., Exeter 235-2740 eti What Every Family Should Know ONTARIO FUNERAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION The casket: open/closed? When humans are born, most possess five senses. They are: smell, taste, hearing, sight and touch. The reason we have these senses is so that we can experience life. If, to have a knowledge of the facts of life were enough, we wouldn't heed these senses. We would merely need thoughts, but as humans we are meant to ex- perience life. Think of it. If someone were to describe the lovely fragrance of a rose, we would know that the fragrance is good but to experience that fragrance with our own sense of smelt brings us to the ultimate understanding of the fragrance of the rose. We could have the rich taste of french vanilla ice cream described to us but we must' taste it for ourselves if we are to understand this taste fully. We could only partially understand the sweet sound of the birds singing on a spring morning but. can only fully understand this sound when we experience it with our own sense of hearing. Children can constantly he told that touching a hot surface is pain- ful but. until they experience the pain of the hot surface they don't undertand the pain ful- ly. We can have the gorgeous view of a red sun settling down into the horizon, lighting the sky with its bright orange and red colors. but un- til we experience this view with our sense of tight we don't fully comprehend its beauty. When someone we love dies, we must make the emo- tional and physical adjustment to living in the absence of our relationship with the deceased if we wish to continue living in a healthy manor. This ad- justment is called the healing process of grief. In order for this process to be as healthy as possible we have a need to establish a solid foundation on which this healing process of grief can be built. The major senses we use to establish this foundation are our sense of sight and touch. To look at a box with the knowledge that the dead per- son's body is inside is not the u imate in comprehension of the experience. When we are confronted with a death we must "acknowledge that not only has our relationship with the deceased ended, but all the relationships that we ex- perience will end. These rela- tionships will end because either those we have the rela- tionships with will die or we will die. Because of the emo- tional trauma caused by death, we will attempt to find any way possible to deny death. One attempt to deny death is to keep the casket closed. Psychologically, it is heathiest to confront and com- prehend reality in the ultimate way, that being the experience which our senses of sight and perhaps even touch will afford us. Seeing is believing. If we assault our eyes, over time, with the cold reality that our loved one is no longer with us. the. adjustment to a healthy state of mind will be made more quickly and with Tess pain. Being that the body of a person is what we most often recognize that person by, we are also afforded an opportuni- ty to express emotions we feel toward the deceased which perhaps we should have com- municated before the death. This also contributes to the healthy return to normalcy. For more information of the value Of an open casket please contact your local member OFSA funeral director. The value of the funeral is a conviction of Bruce Armstrong who writes for OFSA from Port Colborne, Your area Ontario Funeral Service Members are X/2/1e/le— FUNERAL NOME IRV ARMSTRONG oH0WE »s 1220 Boa FLETCHER T. 'iIttoketi aith '�n FUNERAL HOME 223 Main St. Luton 227-4211 `. :if.:•Uf' I01.41N ;1► EXEIL: • AUSABLE RIVER NOMADS • AUSABLE-FAYFIEID CONSERVAT ION AUTIit)RIT Y • OVERNIGHT CAMPING — The Ausable River Nomads and the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority have combined to provide overnight camping facilities for campers. Nomads Burdene Morgan and Cliff Moore are shown with a new sign on the property on the west side of Highway 4, opposite Riverview Park. Acreages up Canning Crops planted late Tillers of the soil are work- ing at top speed to compen- sate for planting delays caus- ed by a cold, wet, -un- cooperative spring. Joe Ryder, manager of the Ex- eter branch\ of York -Del Monte canners, says the final pea acreage was planted by Friday, and the canning corn should all be in by this weekend. Normally both crops are in and growing by this time of year, but this spring the ground had no sooner dried out after three days of rain than the skies opened for another 36 hours. The canners' pea acreage is 20 percent more than last year, and 30 percent more corn is going in this year. The company has spent $1.6 million expanding their corn line; whole kernel vacuum- packed corn previously pro- cessed at the now -closed York Farms plant in Brantford will be processed in Exeter from now on. Ryder is keeping his fingers crossed • for 'a good crop this year, to compensate for a short -pack in 1963. Bert Visscher, RR 1 Hay, plants 10 to 12 acres of his 120 -acre market garden operation with transplants, and the remaining acreage is direct-seecde4. His transplants are thriving this year, the result of a change of supplier, and he expects to begin harvesting about July 10, on- ly three days behind last year. Visscher says the cole fami- ly is a tough one, and direct - seeded plants such as broc- coli, cauliflower and cabbage can withstand cold dampness and frost that would serious- ly damage tomatoes or potatoes., Moisture conditions so far have been ideal, and Visscher has not had to irrigate yet. The rains that frustrated those trying to plant canning corn benefitted the plants growing in Visscher's lighter soil. Perth county's soil and crop specialist Pat Lynch was tak- ing crop calls in,Huronlast week while the. Linton -based farm specialists were at a conference. Lynch reports that most winter wheat is in head, and looking good, A lot of fields have some powdery mildew on the bottom leaves. Lynch assures farmers this disease is of rto consequence, and no pesticide can do anything about it, anyway. Lynch has also seen some septoria, .which appears on the leaf as a brown spot sur- rounded by light yellow. This condition is in the same category as the powdery mildew - it is not harmful, and no treatment is available. As long as it stays off the flag leaves, no damage will occur. Lynch has spotted some ar- my worms, and advises pro- ducers to check their fields. Corn is off to an excep- tionally good start, and very. little replanting has been necessary. It is too early to predict yield. Some fields are showing purple plants, but Lynch assures concerned farmers this is a genetic characteristic of some GRADUATES — Brenda Brand, daughter of Mrs. Rennie Brand and the late Simon Brand, RR 1, Exeter, recently graduated with honors from Niagara Col- , lege of Applied Arts & Technology in Welland,' Ontario, with a diploma in Secretarial Arts. Brenda is presently employed at Dashwood Industries Limited, Centralia. hybrids, and will not Itfect yields. Lynch has seen numerous fields with weed escapes, which should be tended to immediately. Soys and white beans are also off to a good start, and have emerged quite well. Herbicide damage if any, is not yet apparent. With no set -backs, spring grain looks better than average. The light green col- our in some fields indicates a shortage of nitrogen. If the plants aren't too high, more can still be applied. First cuts of hay are prov- ing to be better than average. Lynch allowed himself on- ly one negative note, and even that has its positive side - the spring grain is so lush it may smother out the new underseeding. Brian Hall, farm manage- ment specialist at the Clinton office, was amazed at how much the corn has grown in the week he had been away. He said the county needed rain, but not quite as much as fell over the weekend, with some areas reporting up to 21 inches over a 24-hour period. Hall is concerned that the heavy rainfall may cause crusting preblems with late - emerging beatiN aild wash some plants out altogether. On the whole, he says so far crops in Huron "look ter- rific", a great improvement over last year at this time. The readers write Dear Sir: On behalf of the Grand Bend Concert Association, I want to thank you for printing the many articles on the ac- tivities of our organization last year. I especially want to thank you for supporting the young Canadian musicians that per- form in our Youth and Music concert series. They owe their success in part to the coverage that you gave them. Without your help, many of our residents would have missed seeing these talented young artists. Sincerely Dawn Crabe SCHOOL VISIT — Toronto-based poet -musician -songwriter Robert Priest visited Exeter Public School classrooms to talk to the students. Don't teach, but inspire "You don't teach someone to write, you inspire them", was the advice poet, musician and songwriter Robert Priest passed on to the four classes he visited ai Exeter Public School. Practicing what he preached, he first read some of his amusing rhymes, and then improvised a verse in honour of this area. "Darth, Rutabaga, with his pointy purple -face. Tried to go to school. but felt so out of place Met a girl named Mary, developed an awful crush But she threw him down the stairs. and now he's rut- abaga mush." The young performer has had books of both adult and children's poetry published. 'Ile said the children's verse rhymed, the adults' didn't. Ile heads a rock hand, and has one record out. For nine months he turned out a poem a week for the CBC show Is Anybody Home? aimed at a youthful audience. Priest encouraged the students to use their imagina- tions. arguing that we would still be hack living in caves if someone hadn't first imagin- ed light emanating from a glass bulk, or a vehicle gliding along on four wheels. "Everything we have now started as a dream. Someone imagined each object, and then someone made it," he said. Priest's tour of this area, funded by the Ontario Arts Council, has taken him to schools in Zurich, Goderich and Londesboro. Times -Advocate, June 20, 1984 Pope S Hier, lawyer speak to PIIDI PRIDE d a very in- teresting eytlping in Old own -Hall. r officer Kevin and Exalter defence lawyer Randy Evans were the guest speakers. Of con- Cowgirls win twice The Crediton Cowgirls ladies fastball team came away with two more wins this past week to bring their record to seven wins and two losses in Huron -Middlesex la P The Cowgirls do not play again until Monday night, June 25 when they travel to Huron Park to meet the St. Peters team at 7 p.m. In their first win, the Cowgirls defeated AilsaCraig by a score of 10-2. They took the lead in the first inning and held on to it until the end of the game. Leading the Cowgirls at the plate was Wilma Lagerwerf who cracked out a home run in the fourth inning. Batting out doubles sere Tammy Regier and Karen Williams. Adding singles were Teresa Van Raay, Brenda Curry, Kelly Heywood, Marilyn Smithers and Wendi Schwindt. Kelly Heywood who was in- jured by a bad throw while stealing second base was the winning pitcher striking out six batters. Due to an electrical storm which shut off the ball lights in the seventh inning, Ailsa Craig team was not able to take their last bat. In their 13-12 win over Parkhill, the whole game was a see -saw affair until Parkhill moved ahead four runs in the fifth inning. The Cowgirls tied it up in the sixth and then in their last bat Marilyn Smithers who batted out a single was able to steal home on a bad pitch to end the game. Leading the Cowgirls at the plate was Marilyn Smithers with three singles and a tri- ple. Teresa Van Raay added three singles, Deb Lord bat- ted out a double and singles were hit by Kelly Heywood, Wilma Lagerwerf, and Judy Steeper. 'The winning pitcher was Brenda Wilds with three • strikeouts. slderable interest was the ALERT machine or Alcohol Evaluation Road Tester, demonstrated by Kevin. It is a neat, little red box, that can be carried in a small suitcase and costs approximately $700. The Police Officer may stop a car and proceed with a "Roadside alcohol -interview procedure". If the officer has .any suspicion the driver has been drinking, he will read a demand to supply a breath test. He will then demonstrate by blowing into the ALERT machine for six seconds or until a light appears. The driver will then be asked to blow into the machine for six seconds or until a light appears. If the light is green there is no.problem, but if it turns red, it means a fail; the driver has more than 80 mgms-of alcohol in L000 mgms. of blood. The police officer now reads a se- cond demand and the driver is arrested for impaired driv- ing. He is to accompany the officer to the station for a breathlizer test. Short added that failure to blow is also an offence. Randy Evans stated that an impaired driving conviction is a criminal offence, and most PE GRADUATE — Helen Muller, daughter of Bill and Mary Muller, RR 1 Crediton, recently graduated from McMaster University with on honors degree in physical educa- tion. Helen will be atten- ding Althouse Teachers College in London in the fall. She is enrolled in the PEMSTEP Program. people are surprised and humiliated at the severity of the conviction. Fora first offence, the fine can range from $50 to $2,000 and up to six months in jail, or both. A second offence can be punished by 14 days to one year in jail, and for a third conviction or more the sentence could be three months to two years. Those convicted have their licenses suspended for three months for a first offence, six months for a second, and one year or more for a third. Evans said every cruiser should be equipped with an ALERT machine. Both speakers agreed the primary need is to increase the chances of the drinking driver being caught. More publicity, more education and more spot checksare also required. The two men recommended increased punishment for repeat offenders, and more. pressure on members of parliament to address this problem. On Location or Studio Bart DeVries PHOTOGRAPHY i�► - cottrtcut • POIIIARS • wttxxwcs • GIOU/s AVIMOTY iWILInimmin ......r - Telephone 235.1298 137 Thames Rd. last Exeter, Ont. • NOTICE To Usborne Township Residents.. The second instalment of taxes is due on June 22. 1984 Please pick up your 1984 dog tags at Usborne Township . Office, Morrison Dam site before July 1. 1984 We'll Do the Job Right... ialloposti Ready -Mix Concrete FREE ESTIMATES: Residential, commerical and form, founda- tions, floors. slabs, sidewalks, driveways, manure tanks, etc., form rentals, equipment rentals. For guaranteed strength, quality controlled and service call'. C.A. McDowell Redi•Miu Ltd. 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