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Clinton News-Record, 1980-05-01, Page 7the Eleanor Brodnock, editor - e . ,c34:v..ocite • Village comings and 'goi.pgs Mrs, Wilina Brawle'Y Winners at the weekly Elva Straughan visited arrived hone recently euchre party in the fast ,week- for several after spending the winter Auburn COM uni ty days with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bennett at Ainherstburg. months in Florida. ° " Memorial hall last week Miss Carol Beaille of were: novelty, Elliott Kitchener spent last week Lapp, high lady, Mrs, in the village with her Jack Lockhart; low lady, mother i Mrs, Iona Beadle Jean Wilson; high man, and brother Gordon Stan Dennis; low man, Beadle, . Warner Andrews. There Mrs. Ronald Ratliwell were nine tables in play. of Blenheim and her Winner of the Auburn mother, • Mrs, Celia and District Lion's Club Taylor of Goderich called lottery last week was on relatives last week in Barry Pitblado of theNillage.• --• Goderich. --Many—of the—Auburn and District Lions club members attended the convention held at Goderich last weekend. Mrs, Ross Robinson, Mrs„ Dorothy Grange, Mrs. Frank ,! Raithby, Mrs. Thomas Lawlor and Mrs. Eleanor Bradnock _ attended the District 8. Horticultural Society annual meeting at Chesley last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. William Mrs. Eleanor Bradnock Seers and Miss Carol and Mrs. Robert Seers attended the McAllister, R,R. 2 baptismal service for the Auburn attended the former's twin grandsons, Hamilton -London Jeffrey and Scott Reed of Syniidical Society of the Hensall. They are the Presbyterian Women's twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Missionary Society at Allan Reed, nee Gail -Brantford last week. -7,Seers, of Hensall. Mrs. Thomas Jardin Recent guests with and her mother Mrs. Mrs. Frances Clark were. Miss Jean Wilson of fpToronto, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. D. Goffin of .S pir• • tt of Robert London. .Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Jardin and Mrs. Elva' Straughan visited last weekend in Waterloo with the former's daughtei; Mrs. Bonnie Armour and Julie. r 1111 J.A. McIntosh and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. iTim Lawlor and Andrea of Wallenstein visited last Thursday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lawlor. Her aunt. Mrs f Charles Handy and Mr. Handy of Ohio ,we.re also guests and visited MS. and Mrs., Tom Hallam Mr. and Mrs. •Harold Baechler attended their nephew's wedding - Carl Cook to Patricia. Brooks in the Presbyterian Church, Lucknow last Saturday. They also attended the reception at the Lucknow Legion following the ceremony. St. Marks ACW meets The Anglican Church Women of St. Mark's Church met for the April meeting at the home of Mrs. Lillian Letherland. The scripture lesson was read by Mrs. Thomas Haggitt followed by the meditation by Mrs. Letherland. Mrs. tThnald Cartwright led in prayer. The RO. William Craven --read "My Brother's Keeper" from the Living Message. President Mrs. Donald Cartwright presided for the business portion. The minutes of the previous meeting were accepted as read by Mrs. Thomas Lawlor in the absence of the secretary Mrs. John Daer. The financial statement was given by the treasurer Mrs.. Thomas Haggitt. Correspondence was read and a get -well card signed, to go -to Mrs. John Daer who is a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital. Roll call was answered by quoting a verse per- taining to Easter. Girl's Auxiliary St. Mark's Anglican Church's Girl's,Auxiliary sponsored its first teen dance. Fifty young people from the surrounding digtrict were out to the Auburn Community Memorial hall on Saturday April 19 to disco dance. Derrick Cartwright, Terry Rueger and friends from London were the disco jockeys. During the evening the young people enjoyed the cafeteria. A reminder to parents in Auburn and district. The 'Auxiliary girls are now in the midst of a baby-sitting course. Upon successful completion the girls will receive cer- tificates to care for your children while you are out for an evening. The door prize was won by Shawn Seers. Smile If it weren't for coffee spoons, some folks would never make a stir. erince fights anonymity by Shelley McPhee Like many other great Canadians, Robert Service is - an -unknown-. His work, his life and his writings on the exciting early days in the Yukon, lie buried with much of our culture and history on library book- shelves. Yet Robert Service's works are timeless and his exciting and beautiful prose should receive more recoghitiori from Canadians CLINT(* NEWS -RECORD. THURSDAY, MAY i , lOW-PAGE 7 rr. It was back toschool for a few hours last Friday for 65 newspaper correspondents from a dozen area weekly newspapers in Huron, Perth and Bruce counties, as a seminar was was held for them at Wesley -Willis United Church in Clinton. Pictured hard at work on an assignment are News -Record . correspondents Blanche Deeves, left, Milena.Lobb," Moira Robinson and Esther Handy. (News -Record photo) Weekly readership is strong • The readership of weekly newspapers is growing at a faster rate than dailies because people want local news. That was some of the information imparted by Bob Trotter, journalism co-ordinator at Conestoga College, when he ad- dressed a seminar for correspondents spon- sored by the Bluewater Regional Newspaper „Network In _Clinton Friday. Nine of the correspondents who serve the News -Record were among- the 80 in attendance at the event. Trotter also noted that the electronic media can't do the job as well as newspapers, saying that what news most people get from TV or radio in one day is equivalent to only half a page in their newspaper. He referred to rur 1 correspondents as of the most importaf t 'cots in the newspaper inachine." Trotter, who also writes a weekly farm column for 20 newspapers, said per- sonal items in weeklies were . well read. "The more you write about people, the more it will be read," he advised. -. The seminar was organized by Shirley Keller, editor of the Goderich Signal -Star, who termed correspondents the "lifeline" ofnewspaperS. "Be assured your work. is appreciated by our newspapers and the people who 1Ne in your neck of the woods," she advised. One of the best ways to easily understand and remember a poet's words is to hear him recite his works and so it is with Robert Service. For even though the British born poet has been dead for 22 years, his spirit lives on for many Canadians to ap- preciate. Since 1971 Charles Hayter, a Liverpool born actor, has kept the ,Service's work alive and has been enlightening audiences from coast to coast in Canada and throughout the world. In an entertaining and humorous one man shoW entitled A Taste 91 Robert Service, life in Canada's, northwest in the early 1900's and the beauty of the land is recalled and acted out in a performance by Mr. Hayter. During the show, Mr. Hayter does not exist. Instead a vivacious man with a heavy Scottishbrogue fills the room and captures the audience with such classic poems as The Cremation of Sain McGee and The Shooting of Dan McGrevi. Robert Service is best known for his melodramatic and humorous ballads of the Klondike. However the words to his poems take on new life and excitment in their renditions by Mr. Hayter. The performance is more than a recitation. In a flamboyant and powerful style, the words in Robert °Service's many books of poetry become tall tales of adventure and humor in the completely metnorized performance. The two-hour show is not only entertaining, but is also a literary and historical lesson all wrapped in one. As the spirit of Service, the performer tells of his birth in 1874, the first poems he wrote, his immigration to _Canada, his return to Europe and his death. The autobiographical performance is enhanced with poems, that take on new and more in-depth meanings once the audience has an understanding and a first hand impression of the man behind the words. Any Canadian who appreciates good entertainment or 'has an interest in their country and its culture should see A Taste Of Robert Service. 'The slit -Ay; which played at CHS$ on April 24, at the Clinton Legion on April 30 and, will be shown this af- ternoon (May 1) at Huronviewis more than a poetry recitation. It's a first rate spiritecTperformEtnce from the spirit himself. Barry Wenger, publisher of the Wingham Advance -Times, told the seminar that the writing ability of weekly newspaper reporters is "quite superior to what we find in dailies." He said this was due in part to the excellent supply of trained journalists being turned out by community colleges, such as C,onestoga. Tjh.ieB at er Regional Newspaper Network involves weeklies in Huron, Perth and Bruce Counties. Bill _ Batten, president of the. group, listed the member newspapers from Exeter, Zurich, St. Marys, Clinton, ,Goderich, Kiricardine, Seaforth, Brussels, Blyth, Listowel, Mitchell, Lucknow and KINDERGARTEN , --- REGISTRATION Clinton Public School MAY 15, 1980 Commencing at 9 a.m. PLEASE CALL THE SCHOOL 482-9424 FOR APPOINTMENT Children born in 1975 are eligible Please bring birth certificate ee our new onlas:lbday Wingham. 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