Clinton News-Record, 1977-09-22, Page 3*People in profile Blanche enjoys others
BY JOANNE W AI.TE RS
Bleftehe Deeves of R.R. 3
,Clinton, will have only lived
in Huron County for four
years by December 8. "But,"
she says, "I'm just as well
known up here as I was back
,...home (in Delaware c ounty). I
just fitted right in with
everybody. It's un-
believable."
It's not so unbelievable
though if, you know, Mrs.
Deeves and her enthusiasm
for life in general,. She enjoYS
meeting people and "dding'
fdr others".
Mrs. Deeves was. married
fover 30 years when her
sthusband died. Hehad
b b a rural route mail man
and she had helped him haul
mail out of Lambeth for about
18 years.
In 1973 she married Ed
Deeves and moved to the
Deeves farm at RR3 Clinton.
The Deeves family has been
on the property since 1861. In
fact they even found the
p original crown land deed.
Mrs. Deeves has written
the Middleton news for "the
Clinton News Record for
about three years and she has
been the Holmesville news
correspondent for both the
Clinton News Record and the
Goderich Signal -Star for
about a year.
"I really enjoy doing it,
use I like meeting people
doing for others," she
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At • first she was a bit
hesitant about writing a
column.
"I only went to Grade 9. I'm
not as well educated as
some."
•'However, she .decided to
give it a try. She started
writing church news only but
eventually people began to
phone her with other news
items and the column ex-
panded.
Although gathering and
writing the news takes her
from Monday morning until
Tuesday night, Mrs. Deeves
doesn't think of it as work
b7cause she enjoys doing it.
The people in her area, she
says, are co-operative. Some
of them phone her With news
items and she has one or two
key people on each road that
she can call and count on to
know what is happening on
each -4)f their roads. She can
always count on the
Holmesville 4-H girls to call
her with their news and the
secretary of the Holmesville
school to phone her with
school news.
By writing the column.
Mrs. Deeves feels that she
has learned a lot. For one
thing, she, says, she has
improved her spelling with
the help of a dictionary and a
telephone book. She says 'she
has received favorable
comments on her column
from people 'who. have moved
away from the community
and now live in places like
Florida or Northern Ontario.
The Holmesville and
•Middletori news celumns are
not the only writing Mrs.
Deeves does. She is also an
avid letter writer. She has
two pen pals in New Zealand,
one in Australia, one in South
Africa, one in the United
States and one closer to home
in British Columbia. She also
keeps up correspondence
with her 83 -year-old uncle in
New York State who she says
writes the most beautiful
letters, still drives his own
car, swims and fishes.
From August 24 to Sep-
tember 12, Mrs. Deeves and
her husband visited the
Canadian West. Mrs. Deeves
loves to travel and she has
always wanted to see the
Rockies.
"Canada is gorgeous. I
don't care about going to
Florida and all those other
places."
Mrs. Deeves visited
Golden, British Columbia to
meet her pen pal who lives
there. They have been
corresponding with one
another for about 10 years.
Meeting her pen pal for the
first time was just like
meeting someone she'd
known all of her life, ac-
cording to Mrs. Deeves.
While in Golden, she also
visited the two weekly
newspapers there. She
brought greetings from the
Goderich Signal -Star and the
Clinton News Record .and
they in turn sent greetings
back. One paper published
her picture on the front page.
The Deeves also went to
Lake Louise, Fort Steele,
Radium Springs and Shilo,
Manitoba. Mrs. Deeves has a
19 -year-old son., Len, who is
with the army at Shilo. She
says the army has taught her
son self-diseiplin-e- and she is
impressed by his manners
and maturity. She herself is
from a military family. Her
fattier was with the Royal
Canadian Regiment, a very
proud regiment she says. She
was born in Toronto and
raised in London, Ontario.
Besides Len, she also has a
married daugther and three
gcr-antlehikl=1
She loves to have young
people around and they often
visit he,v. A lot of people, she
feels, are down on young
people today but she thinks,
.they're great.
Mrs. Deeves says she
always had two dreams. One
was to go west and see the
Rockies which she did this
year and the other was to visit
her aunt in England which
she did in 1974. She would now
like 'to visit Scotland,
although she has no relatives
there.
While Mrs. Deeves loves
travelling, she is also very
fond of her home.
"It's beautiful up here, -
she says pointing out her
kitchen' window to the bush
withits leaves already tur-
ning autumn colors. She has a
garden and her house inside
is filled with healthy plants.
"I'm, a plant lover, " she
confesses. She just waters
them and occassionally talks
-to them and they grow and
grow. She belongs to the
Clinton Horticultural Society
and admits she goes a "bit
crazy" when they have a
plant sale.
Mrs. Deeves has also filled
her home with her many
collections. She collects
coins, post cards, spoons,
plates and antiques. She has
collected antiques since she
lived in Delaware. She has
antique clocks, furniiure,
dishes, a branding iron, an
old organ and even an old
wood burning stove: She uses
the old stove for cooking and
baking in the winter time. She
can get free wood from the
Deeves bush and conserve
energy., She really enjoys
cooking and baking but says
she is no good atcrafts.
If she has to, Mrs. Deeves
can help her husband and his.
brother with the chores
although she doesn't often go
out to the barn. She drives a
truck for the men during
haying time and says she
helps out where she can.
Mrs. Deeves loves her
church work and says the
rector depends on her for a
number of things. She belongs,
to St. James Anglican Church,
in,,Middleton which has only a
20 member congregation. She
also belongs to the A.C.W.
Middleton people often
write out their news and slip
it to her in church for, the
paber.
Mrs. Deeyes likes western
and, gospel music and she
loves to dance. She also likes.
to laugh and joke. She has a
philosophy that says, ' be
happy and cheerful, „do for
others and don't always
expect. them to do for you.
Living by that philosophy has
made Mrs. Deeves a
charitable person. She has
done such things as gathering
belongings for a family who
were burned out of their
home.
Mrs. Deeves is ' also a
member of the Goderich
Township Women's Institute.
She is always on the go but
she is making the most of
each day and enjoying life to
its fullets.
It is not surprising that
Mrs. Deeves "just fitted right
in with everybody" in her
new community. 13y "doing
for others" she is making a
contribution to her com-
munity and the people of that
community in turn welcome
and appreciate her. .
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1977—PAGE 3
Mrs. Blanche Deeves of RR 3 Clinton is the Holmesville news correspondent for
both the Clinton News -Record and the Goderich Signal -Star. There are a few key
people Mrs. Deeves can call on each road in her area and she can count on them
knowing what is going on on each of those roads. She can also count on several
people calling her with their news like the Holmesville 4-H group or the secretary
of Holmesville Public School. Although writing the news each week takes up some
of her time, she doesn't think of it as work because she enjoys doing it. (staff
photo)
Former Goderich Twp. man •appointed
to presidency
George M. Harwood, for-
merly of Goderich Township,
was recently appointed
President of Co-operative
Book Centre of Canada
Limited. The appointment
was announced by Board
Chairman, Donald G.
Campbell.
Mr. Harwood was born at
RR 2 Goderich to Gordon and
Bertha Harwood. He attended
Union Public School and
moved to Toronto at the age
of 13 and received his higher
education there. His sister,
Mary Sutter lives in Clinton.
Mr. Harwood has been
associated with the
publishing industry for the
last 25 years, specializing in
book distribution.
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Mr. Harwood has made a
significant contribution
towards the Co-operative
Book Centre's growth and has
greatly improved the Com-
pany's service standards
during the time he has served
the company.
The Ontario Safety League
reminds parents that your
children learn from the
examples you set. For in-
stance, if you habitually
jaywalk, most likely they will
too. If you disregard traffic
signs and signals, whether
you're driving or walking, so
will they.
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Vandals to repay
Clinton council last . week agreed
with Police Chief Lloyd Westlake's
recommendation to seek restitution
from 10 juvenile boys in town who
vandalized one of the town's parking
meters.
Mayor Harold Lobb said that the
parents of one of the youths had already
promised the chief to pay for part of the
$254 cost to repair the motor, and no
charges will be laid against the rest of
the nine boys, should full payment„ be
made to the town.
"I hope they make restitution," Mayor
Lobb said,. "they're pretty expensive td
get fixed."
Council also agreed to sign a three
year lease with ministry of government
services to rent the town hall out as a
court room one day a month at a cost of
$50 per day„ Pr'eviously, the town had
signed only one year leases, but the
government said a three year lease
would create less book work.
Council will also meet with the Public
.-Utilities Commission on September 19 to
go over a proposed $15,000 cost of run-
ning a watermain down Irwin Street to
Fleming Feed Mill, with Fleming paying
$11,050 of the cost.
Council will alsO meet with a Mohawk
Street resident over a power tran-
sformer located on the man's property
near Raglan Street. Apparently no
easement was given to the town for the
property under the transformer when a
subdivision agreement was signed with
Huron Pines five years ago, and now the
property owner wants the transformer
remoVed.
Plowing match
(continued from page 1)
School.
Directors in charge of the Queen of the
Furrow contest were Howard and Elaine
Datars, Dashwood and John and June
Clark, Goderich.
Taking the honour of "veteran
plower" was T.P. O'Malley of
Teeswater who was participating jn a
Huron plowing match for the 50th time.
Night school
(continued from page 1)
fitness, flower arranging, macrame,
knitting and crocheting - basic and
advanced, metric conversion, small
engine repair, bookkeeping and ac-
counting, woodworking, electricity for
farm and -home, and assorted crafts.
"If there are any courses or crafts
which anyone would like to see being
taught at CHSS, please contact me, and
an attempt will be made to approve the
desired program," said Mr. Fox.
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