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Times-Advocate, 1984-06-20, Page 25Times -Advocate, June 20,. 1984 0, SUCCESSFUL JUMP ROPE Students at SHDHS raised more than $6,100 for Jhe Ontario Heart Fund in a Jump. Rope event recently. Above, Barb and Carolyn Regier are shown in action and below a large number of students are skir Sing. T -A photo t 4 t,. (ti • s ` „4' `t ir 4 • Rec .board's plea heard again - '( ' ; Bai'I teams plan to erect fence Earlier this year. members of the South Iluron rec centre board of management sug- gested that. due to financial restraints on their budget, local service and sports groups should be encouraged to assist -with the sort of capital or operating expenses when possible. That was a suggestion that has now paid dividends on two occasions. The Exeter Lions and Lioness agreed to use profits from the recent 1 (omecoming and Peanut Stomp to install lights at the local tennis courts and at their meeting or this week, the board quickly agreed to an offer by local fastb ll teams toereet a fence at the number one diamond. Brian tiodgins, - represen- ting the Exeter Royals, ap- peared at Thursday's session to discuss the venture, repor- ting that the fence envisioned would cost $2,500 and the Royals and teams in the local rec league had already agreed to cover the entire cost. . The self-supporting metal fence wouldbe erected in sec- • lions that Ifodgins said would enable it to he taken down or - put up in a- matter of about 1 1. WATER EVERYWHERE - The torrential rains early Sun- day morning produced water puddles everywhere. Ken- ny Moore and Michael Chappell ore splashing around near the Ausable River at Grand Bend while the canoe races were getting underway Sunday morning., ESCORTS Greg Doyman (left) and Terry Haugh drove diners from the park to the fire hall for breakfast at the Fiddlers Contest. t one hour. Each of the teams con- tributing to the cost would have their names enscribed on metal plaques to be erected on the fence. He indicated there should be a minimum of maintenance required and the fence could be stored in the agricultural building over the off-season months and would require a comparative- ly small storage area. "It sounds like a good. im- provement," conl'mented board chairman•John'Pym as members enthusiastically en- dorsed the idea for the fence. It will replace a snow fence which was used on occasions in recent years. ip Exeter representative Gaylan Josephson noted that this was the second example of community involvement in community park im- provements in the last couple of months and he' led a hear- ty round of appreciatvie com- ments from members. A letter was received at the meeting from PUC manager. Hugh Davis outlining his com- ments and quotation for Street The readers write To the Editor: 1 believe 10 years of hard work. dedication, good management and thus suc- cess deserves4o he recogniz- ed and applauded. This is where the Blyth Festival is at. in its ever-growing life. This year we are celebrating our 10th Birthday with much pride. The season looks ter- rific, with special opening ceremonies on June twenty- second. •- Many exciting events are happening throughout the summer and 1 would especial- ly like to note our Reunion Weekend on August 11 and 12. Join us to renew old acquain- tances and enjoy the com- pany of 'many people who have made the Blyth Festival what it is today. Tickets are going very well! Remember, vouchers are only on sale un- til June 16. so why not pick up on that saving? Thank you for contributing to the Blyth Festival in the past and please continue to show your support to tins theatre whose presence adds enjoyment and richness to the life of our community and region. It is indeed a pleasure to be associated with such a positive, caring group of peo- ple. It has given me a tremen- dous growth experience and many good friends. Looking forward to seeing you in this our 10th celebratory season. Sincerely, Liz Herman President, Board of Directors lighting along Victoria St. east of the public school and in the area of the rec centre. A total of seven poles would be required and it was sug- gested that the lighting be similar to that at the rear of the town hall. The board decided to turn the matter over to the facilities committee for study and recommendation. In other business. the board: Approved 'the hiring of the summer sports and play pro- -gram staff as follows: co • - ordinator Liz Scott. • $175 week; leaders Susan Birm- ingham, Lisa Rundle, Karla Josephson and Ileather Pro- ut, $154 week: leaders -in - training Marilyn Hamilton and Mary Birmingham, $50 week. Jennifer Merrylees was added to the pool staff to fill a vacancy created when Steve Batten accepted a posi- tion al the Kirkton-Woodham pool. • Learned that the new hall diamond being provided, by the Exeter Legion at the nor- theast corner of tie park was nearing complel nand that the third rotation of Katimavik had ended. Ap- plication has been made for another sponsorship to begin in September, but rental ac- commodation is needed for the group. Were told that. the Lioness plan to add at !cast one unit to the adventure playground south of the rec centre this year and to instal, a harrier around the area to contain the sand. - Held a discussion on the need to have rec centre staff identified so they could be spotted by people who may mil know them. The matter was turned over to the person - net committee.. •.• 1. • • Message from the cop down the strOl. Editor's Note: The following article, taken from the RCMP Quarterly. was originally published in The Golden Star, Golden. B.C. By Cpl. Dale -Martel - This is an open letter to all parents of all young people everywhere. 1 am writing in response to some of the ques- tions you ask the daily. I am not just one police officer; I represent every officer in every city and town in Canada. You may know me only as the cop who gave you a ticket Iasi summer, but I am also the guy who Jives down the street .from you. I am the parent of three children and I share with you the feeling of, shame, guilt andsdisappoinf- Author web in weaves spider "Blyth is tremendous - there are very -few places in this country where a playwright has an opportuni- ty like this!" So said.Brian Tremblay, author of A Spider in the House. Brian has been at the Blyth Festival for the past week, working closely with the director, Kim McCaw, on the rehearsals of this new play. The process. is very exciting - while working with the director and actors, new in- sights are discovered.. Sec- tions might be rewritten to 'highlight a new angle or point of view. "Lots of theatres are not interested in developing new plays - it's a very risky business. They don't like to take that chance and leave it to places like Blyth." • . Brian Tremblay made his debut as a playwright with the production of his- first play, Two for the Show, at the Kawartha Festival in 1982. His second play, Fezwick, a play for children, has been produced in Toronto and Ed- monton. He won theToronto Trilogy playwriting competi- tion sponsored by CITY TV for which nearly 1000 scripts were received from across the country. A Spider in the House opens at the Blyth Festival on Tues- day,une 2ti: tickets are stilt availble from the Box Office. The cast includes Blyth veterans -Mary Ann Coles and Beth Amos, and newcomers Jennifer Munday, Andrew Martin Thomson. Laurel Paetz, Gerald Lenton and Janet Land. A search is cur- rently underway for the final cast member - a feline. with a faculty.fbr theatre, to play Lord Nelson, the one -eyed cat in the play. Spider is alsobe- ing produced at the Kawartha Festival in Lindsay this sum- mer - in fact,- Brian and his wife. actress Judith Goodwin. - are actiein it - and there are further production possibilities being considered for the fall ment when my boy or girl gets into trouble. I am ala angry and sick at heart with trying to do my job and being tagged the bad guy, when all I have ever wanted was to avert the kind of tragedy I. have just witnessed. • The scene was a long stretch of. highway with a sharpcurve at one end. It had been raining and roads were slick. A car travelling• in ex- - cess of •80 mph missed the curve and plowed into an em- bankment where it became airborne and struck a tree. At this point, two of the three young passengers were hurled from the vehicle, one into the tree, the other into the roadway, where the car land- ed on him, snuffing out his life like a discarded cigarette on the asphalt. He was killed in- stantly. He was the lucky one. The girl thrown into the tree had her neck broken • and although she was voted queen of the senior prom and most likely to succeed, she will now spend the next 60 -years in a wheelchair. Unable to do . anything else, she will live and .relive that terrible mo- ment over again many times. By the time I arrived, the car had come to rest: on its top, the broken wheels had stopped spinning. Smoke and steam were pouring out of the engine, ripped from its moun- ting by a terrible force. An• eerie calm had settled over the scene and it appeared deserted except for one lone traveller who had called it in. He had been sick to his stomach and was leaning against his car for support. The driver was conscious, but in shock, and was unable to free himself from under the bent and'twisted steering col- umn! His face will be forever scarred by deep, cuts from broken glass and jagged metal: Those cuts will heal,' but the ones inside cannot be touched . by the skilled surgeon's scapel. Let Off with Warning The third passenger had almost stopped bleeding. The seat and his clothing were covered in blood from an artery cut in his arm by the broken bone end that protrud- ed from his forearm just below the elbow. His breath came in gasps. as he tried desperately to suck air past his blood-filled airway. Ile was unable to speak and his eyes, bulged and fixed on me pleadingly, were the only communication that he was terrified and wanted my help. 1 felt a pang of guilt and recognized him as a boy I lel off with a warning the other night for an open container of alcohol in his car. Maybe if I had cited him there. he would still be alive "now. Who knows? I don't. Ile died soundlessly in my arms, his pale blue eyes star- ing vacantly as if trying to see into the future he would never Bayfield planning showing of quilts Quilts entered in the Bicentennial Quill Show spon- sored by the Bayfield Historical Society and the Pioneer Park Associalion will be judge d according to a point system: so many points for design and color. so many for workmanship exclusive of quilling. so many for the skill of the quilting The show will be held at the Old Town Hall on ('tan Gregor Square in Bayfield 4 just off Highway 21 between (;rand Bend and Goderich ) over ('i vie 1101iday Weekend. August :3. 4 and 5. There will he. two categories in which quilts may he entered: antique and contemporary. •A two dollar entry fee registers the quilt to he judged for a $25.00 cash' prize in each category, plus other prizes of merchandise. Quills may also be listed for sale. In the antique category. there will be a special prize for the gull with the most in- teresting story thistorical or family ►. Among the prizes of- fered for the contemporary quilts will be one for the best quill made by an individual under- 25 years old. and the hest one made be an in- dividual over 70years. A special award will be given to the new quilt with the best On- tario Bicentennial theme. Entry forms are available after June 15 for a SASE to Gladys Malcolm. Box 1:37. Bayfield, Ontario NOM IGO, or at the Lance Antique Shop. Main Street. Bayfield, or al Mary's Sewing Centre. Clinton. have. I remembered 'wat- ching him playing basketball and wondered what would happen to the scholarship he would never use. Dully my mind focussed on loud screaming and I iden- tified it as the girl who was thrown from the vehicle! I raced to her with a blanket but was afraid to move her. Her head was tilted at an ek- aggerated angle. She seemed unaware pi my presence,and whimpered like a little child for her mother. In the distance, I heard the mourn- ful wail of the ambulance win- ding ifs way through the rainy night. I was filled with in- credible grief at the waste of so valuable a resource,- our youth. The ambulance began the job of scraping up and remov- ing the dead and injured. I stood -by, watching, as hot tears mingled with rain and dripping of my cheeks. You ask me why did this happen? It happened because' a young person, stoned out of his mind, thoughthe could handle two tbns of hurtling death at 80 mph. It happened because an adult, trying be a "good guy", bought for or sold to some minor, a case of beet. It happened because you as parents weren't concerned. enough about your child to know where he was or what he was doing, and you were unconcerned about minors and alcohol abuse and would rather blame me for harrass- ing them when I was only try- ing to prevent this kind of tragedy. It happened because, as people say, you believe this sort of thing only happens to someone else. .I become sick with anger and frustration when I think of parents and leaders' who believe a little bit of alcohol won't hurt anything. I am fill- ed with contempt for people who propose lowering the drinking age because they will get booze anyway, so why not make it legal. -I am frustrated with laws, court rulings and other . legal manoeuverings that restrict FIREMEN'S BREAKFAST — Frank Varley (left) and Butch Hoffman were among the volunteers cooking breakfast during the Fiddlers Contest weekend. BEST PULLERS — Exeter legion president Jim Barnetson presents awards to the best tug-of-war team at Thursday's Huron -Middlesex Cadet Corps graduation. From the left a).ik Cadets Bierling, Hunter, Kooy, Ferguson, Rock and Jamieson. EARLY BREAKFAST — Jeremy Willert and mother Joanne were among those who got up before breakfast to eat in the fire hall during Fiddlers Contest weekend. A letter to Mr. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Dear Pierre; - Well. you've stepped down. A lot of us thought you'd never actually do it. I -remember the excitement when you first became prime minister. f was about 12 or 13 at the time. and you seemed' so much more interesting than Dief the chief or Lispy Mike. I guess 1 should thank you for getting meinteresled in Oaks in the first place. Those were the days of Trudeaumania -- and you swept all us teeny -toppers off our feet. 1t didn't matter that we weren't old enough to vote, you still had plenty of support from our elders. I remember going to Western Fair in Lon- don that first fall after you came into power. There was one entire booth devoted to Trudeaumania paraphenalia. I came home the proud owner of a drinking glass featuring your photo. But this glass was far too good to drink out of! kept it on my desk to hold pencils. About that time several books were printed about you. Mostly they were spoofs: you were so interesting everyone wanted to have a little fun at your expense. You didn't seem to mind and we all lov- ed you. A copy of "Sex and the Single Prime Minister" made its.way into our house. I sup- pose it's a collector's item now. You were "cool". and it was neat to have a cool prime minister. After all, that was more than our neighbours to the south couldhoast. There was nothing cool about Lyn- don Johnson or Richard Nixon. My mother told me to forget my infatuation with you -- you were far too old for me. But then again, she told me the same thing about Prince Charles, and he went and married someone younger than I am. Then you did it, you broke my heart and all my teeny- bopper friends' hearts. You secretly married someone my ability' to do m job ill preventing this kind of tragedy. • Who Bought the Booze? . I would give an , to know who furnished Mae young people with that booze. I spent several hours on reports and now will take. several months trying to• erase from my memory the details of that night. I will not be alone. The driver will recover and spend the rest of his life trying to forget. Yes, I am angry, and I pray to God that I might never have to face another parent in the middle- of the night and say your daughter, Susan, or your son, Bill, has just been killed in a car accident. For your sake, I hope it doesn't happen to you, but if you continue to regard alcohol. abuse as part of growing up, then please keep your porch light on because some cold, rainy night you will find me at your doorstep, staring at my feet with a message of death for you., • . Assistance. for elderly -services tor the elderly have been increased in a number of southwestern On- tario communities according to the Minister of Communi- ty and Social. Services. Frank Drea announced that a total of $43,000, made available through the Home Support for -the Elderly Pro- gram, will provide seniors with an opportunity to enjoy life to its -fullest. The grants will 'allow for day centres to be established in conjunction with a local home for - the aged in Woodstock, a recreation cen- tre in Tillsonburg and a nurs- ing home in Ailsa Craig. All three day, centres will provide a variety of programs -- such as physical exercises, crafts, sensdty stimulation • and a mid-day meal -- twice a week to seniors in the com- munity. Professionals and volunteers will staff the centres. The Minister said about $17,000 will be granted to the Oxford Branch of the Vic- torian Order of Nurses to operate day centres at the Woodstock Woodingford Lodge and the Tillsonburg Community Centre. In Ailsa Craig, Craigweil Gardens In- corporated will receive $9,792 to run a day centre for the elderly in Craigholme Nurs- ing Home. • Mary's Tintre for musings hayfever! By Mary Alderson who wasn't that much older than we were anyway. At first we loved Margaret -- she was cool, too. Imagine. a real .hippie in 24 Sussex. Then we found out she had more personal problems than you had national problems. And your problems were mounting, too. I guess Trudeaumanin fad- erd along with your marriage. Perhaps you should have con-. sidered retirement back when you split up with Margaret. It's been a rough road ever since. . Oh, 1 know it's been easy to blame you for many things that are beyond your control. 1 realize that our economy just trails along behind the US economy. and there's really not a lot you can do about in- terest rates, inflation and unemployment. But. Pierre, you didn't eveh seem to have any sympathy or understan- ding of the situation for the lit- tle guy. After all. you were still collecting your payche- que and living in a good neighbourhood. You've made my job a lit- tle more difficult in the past year or two. You alienated the west so that any visitor from the east is regarded suspiciously. I have to travel in the Prairies and interview farmers -- bort before they'll even talk to me they want to know why those of us in On- tario keep supporting you. You shouldn't have given the finger to those people in Salmon Arm. No one in the west has ever forgiven you. I saw you in Strathroy last fall and you looked old and tired. Your speech was the most disappointing I've ever heard -- you warned the media people that there would be no news -- and there wasn't. I'm glad you're retir- ing, you need it. • Well, Pierre. it's too bad you outstayed your welcome. You've left your successors a lot of smoothing over to do. But anyway, thanks for the good days back in the sixties; and 1 hope you have some fun with your three boys.. Mary Summertime has finally ar- rived -- we've waited so long to gel out-of-doors; to feel the warm sunshine; to smell the fragrance of the garden flowers in full bloom. But for hayfever sufferers. this beautiful time of year can cause the misery of sneezing, wheezing. red itchy eyes and a runny nose. One person in twenty suffers from the debilitating effects of hayfever, and as such, numerous school and working days are lost each year. But what exactly is hayfever? Cindy Curik, Health Education Program Consultant with the Ontario Luvg Association explains, "In very general terms, hayfever is a seasonal irrita- tion of the eyes, nose, throat. and lungs caused by on over response by the body to cer- tain lightweight, wind carried pollens." In early spring the pollens causing hayfever come from trees such as ash, beech, oak and poplar. In June and July the grass pollens are th'e villians while in late summer and fall. weeds, particularly s gweed, trigger the response. During pollen season, hayfever sufferers should avoid the woods and fields. And this nlay be good news for some -- don't mow the lawn. An air-conditioned home also helps to relieve hayfever s w toms. If you want to enjoy a iday free of sneezes, and a runny nose, head west, because there is no ragweed west of the Rockies. You are also safe north of Lakes Huron and Superior. Irritation can be reduced with suitable medication, most effective for mild hayfever is • the antihistamines. It may also be advisable to decrease sensitivity with allergy shots. For those who have longer and more com- plex allergy seasons it may be worthwhile to go through the effort of getting immunization injections for several years. Your Lung Association has additional information for hayfever sufferers. Ask for Hayfever - The Facts. Remember Your Lungs Are For Life.