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Clinton News-Record, 1980-05-22, Page 11• • Bombers betJ1yei:s The Men's Ste -pitch League regular season got underway last week with both Bayfield entries Involved in the action. In the opener Wed- nesday night, the Bayfield. Flyers dropped the decision as the Bayview Blue Bombers doubled them up by a 14-7 score. -dor- night --the Bayfield Knighthawks met the Dashwood team at the local diamond. Although trailing most of the game - the Knighthawk4 came from, behind lathe' late innings to post a 9-6 victory over last season's champs. The Bluewater Ladies' League regular season is just this week getting . underway. The, exhibition game last �4f Tuesday night was`rained. out, however the Babes edged the Good -times 7-6 in a six inning exhibition game on Wednesday evening at Clan Oregor Square. It was the first outing for both teams;_ Monday night `the Goodtinnes played the Stanley Stars, defeating by a cot -Wincing 12 -.3 -score - " in an exhibition game. The sande• evening the Bayfield Blue Shadow opened the regula. season, losing ein their, first ever' game by a 20-3 score to the Varna ladies. Future games for the ladies teams are: Babes at Varna, Monday; Goodtimes at Blue Shadows, Tuesday, and a -s Zurich on Wednesday. Lions Climb news The Lion's' Club had• as guest speaker at their regular dinner meeting in the Community Centre last Tuesday, Miss Marilyn Cox who is a student at Goderirch District Collegiate Institute. She is involved in the Operation Crossroads Africa project and will spend six weeks this summer on the Island of Santa Luciaone of the Windward Islands. • • She will work with native students there building public facilities and will be sharing in their manual labor. The Lions' Club with the Bayfield Fire Department and Varna residents will hold a benefit dance for Howard Poswalk and family at the Bayfield Arena on Saturday May 31. Music will be provided by Star Trex. Lampoonery by Bud Sturgeon • .Travelling down Louisa Street in the driving ram the other night I noticed a "Roman Candle" shooting up, into the sky,:; From whence it came I do not know, but this'I do. Ydu have to be pretty keen on fireworks to stand out inia rainstorm and watch little colored balls fizzle in the night. It Sorta reminded me of when I was, a kid. Back then Firecracker bay was a big event: Practically everyone had one of those do-it-yourself fireworks display. kits for the backyard. It was something like the mail. Rain or snow, nothing will stop the show. But then again there were no strikes either as I remember. You picked up a•box of fireworks at the variety store or, at the grocery store in town. Sparklers were big too but they didn't make as much noise. You had to add 'O sound effects yourself. Toss them into the air.and'', pick them up off the ground by the hot end in the dark. Anyways if you got the fireworks a few days in advance you could fondle them about a hundred times with great expectations, There were always candles, volcanoes, Tibetan snowstorms and maybe a spinner and a burning schoolhouse or two. During the waiting period great pleasure could be derived by blowing up tin cans and model -cars and planes with cannon crackers. Then the big night came. It was time for Firecracker Night. Six of them were always duds, the sinners fell - - i p'- ����" "� - off the post or � ey were nailed too tight and the rest looked like a color TV set gone wacko ! So much for that. This year we didn't have any fireworks at' the Hollow but a few people had explosions in their head after the Stickmans' Stag at the Mile High. Mostly we took stock of what was going on• over the weekend. We saw the Kettle Creek Canvas Co. open up shop on Main Street as well as what's his name's,, wiener wagon and the Little Albion (White Elephant) got going too. ., The traffic in the downtown area was the pits. I'd have been further ahead to walk it in the rain than try to find parking space: I don't know whether it was all those bargains galore or the Salvation Army singing and preaching at the Post Office on Sunday that lured the crowds out. Overall I figure that it was a fair to middlin' weekend and looking ahead to next week, by the time you read this, Quebec will have referended and the village may have found out why it needs five "mils" of toilet paper. Until then, hang loose. Attend church in London A score of members of St. Andrew's United Church attended the service of Reception and Ordination of Ministers at Wesley Knox United Church in London on Thursday evening last week. -There was anat- tendance of 2,000 as the London Conference of the United Church com- missioned to the order of Ministry three women, and ordained to the Ministry of Word, Sacraments and Pastoral Care, six men and two women. One of these, James Edward Penhale, B.A., M. Div. has an- cestral roots in Huron County. Of special interest to the St. Andrew's Church members in attendance was the reception of a minister from another church, for this„ was the Rev. Alun Gordon Thomas, .B.D. (Wales) from *the Union of Welsh Independents Church of Wales. Alun is, of course, the minister of St. Andrew's United in Bayfield. The Kettle Creek Canvas Company p y put up its sig>G weekend in Bayfield, becoming Main Street's and opened its doors for the first time over the long newest business. (Bud Sturgeon photo) bluebird trail by Bud Sturgeon Have you seen a bluebird. this spring? Do You know where a pair is nesting? The Bayfield Area Bluebird Society (BABS) had its origin in nesting boxes put out along country roads in 1970. For the first couple of years there wasn't a single nes tinpf 1n the third year, there were three. Nestings gradually in- creased until there were 30 by 1974. For a few years the numbers held. Members -of the BABS society checked boxes on bluebird .trails and kept records. But disappointment lay ahead. The numbers dropped drastically until last year when there were. only four nestings with only seven, young fledged. What happened. A lot of factors probably played a part. No doubt one 'was the tremendous, proliferation of tree swallows competing with the bluebirds for the nesting boxes. But mainly, exceptionally. severe cold for two seasons, killed off thousands in the bluebirds' wintering ggr:ounds.- The- wintering grounds for area. bluebirds are thought to be 300-500 miles south of the Great Lakes. Gordon Sinclair on Let's Be Personal; CFRB Radio, recently gave a fine talk on bluebirds. He has graciously, given per mission to publish it. by Gordon Sinclair In mid-March, when migration of field and forest birds was begin- ning for 1980, I had a letter from Joe McMullen who said he was a senior bird watcher and Joe...wanted to know if the eastern bluebird had become extinct. Said Joe..."As a lifetime birdwatcher, I have been always searching and hoping, to see a -.bluebird but never have I seen one. I've asked , many questions about bluebirds and most of the . answers were negative. In fact, the people didn't seem all that interested. Is the eastern bluebird rea-sly- e-xt-inet-or--is•--this -a. myth?" Joe, I'm happy to say it's a myth: The bluebird is brave, happy and apparently more durable than people thought. He has ° a distinctive personality. There are three species, the most com- mon:. ,.the Eastern Bluebird, ranging from Saskatchewan, to the shorelines of Nova Scotia and in Ontario as far north as James Bay. Hens of the bluebird species are one of the few in the field of domestic style birds that will fight over a male. Bluebirds don't go very far south to spend the winter, seldom deeper than central Mexico and when they come back in May, • the males usually return first. This is common enough among. birds but not often do males come in such large groups as do bluebirds. They spy out the territory awaiting later arrival of hens and courting them through bits of exhibitionism which includes fast dives while warbling. When there are hens in the area the cock bluebird will fly at liesurely pace to about 300 yards on a clear day so that his gallantry can be seen. Then he'll start down in a power dive and midway through the dive, for about 100 yards, he'll •sing a joyous song. "Look at me...how pretty and brave and graceful I am". This impresses the hens and if there happens to be two or more hens who take a fancy to the same blue exhibitionist with the sing -song dive, they'll fight over him. Cock bluebirds seldom fight over .a hen, although they'll actively compete in other ways to draw attention and win. :They,- then -make _:a nest. together, the number of eggs ranging from three to seven but seldom less than four or more than six and incubation time is only 16 days. Feeding period in the nest, before the young bluebirds are able to make a move on their own, is a mere three weeks, so you're entitled to wonder why they aren't more numerous. This becomes a deeper puzzle when you realize that a hen will usually. raise two broods in the same season. - One '`rtOn that they don't ' nrultiply like starlings or robins is that baby bluebirds are - unusually susceptible to attack, by insects, like wasps, ` warble flies, bluebottles, They , can even be killed by caterpillars. As with most wild life, there is -a -cycle -and the bluebird seems to' be coming out of one of those cycles where he appeared ready for extinction. - The common sparrow, the one we call the English sparrow (although he's actually a Portuguese finch) is falling deep. into one of those periods of decline now, _just as the Bluebird seems to be making a comeback. The bluebird is sometimes mistaken here, for the indigo bunting and some people have even mistaken a blue jay for a bluebird. There is really a -marked difference. The cock is the only bird you'll ever see in Ontario that is. completely blue except -for his chest which is brownish. Buntings are darker and " have some black. Jays are bigger, noisier and of mottled color, predominantly blue. Some say the bluebird, next to the sparrow and the robin, is the bird ....which -most ---likes to -be.- near man but there have been, so few around these 20 to 30 years, that we've had little chance to test this theory. He's a happy little showoff and this is a good time of year to talk about him. , So far this spring, the Bayfield group knows of only two nestings in the BAGS boxes. One with five lovely blue eggs and one with four. They hope The ArtofFraming Framing is an art. We do not mean just cutting a frame or installing a picture. What we mean is the selection of the proper moulding, mat, liner, style and colour to bring out the best in your painting, print, photograph, and even needlepoint for you to enjoy for many years to come. At the Raintree we take pride in our expertise and work, because we excel in the art of framing. The high quality of our craftsmanship speaks for itself through the ever-growing list of our satisfied patrons. Why not stop in today for free advice and estimate or just a friendly chat about the art of framing. Exclusive • Fabrics • Wallcoverings 'Furniture • Art & Accents SHOWROOM: 128 Albert Street, Clinton 482 3871 Turn to page 13 THE CLINTON EWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 2,:-P,lit,1 Round a• nd about 'r frorn page 10 Visit an especially happy e one. They'were .also ,abl. to attend the dedication service for Valerie Ann on Mother's Day, held at Bonavista Missionary Church in Calgary. After a lunch at the Albion Hotel, topped off with a •birthday cake in honor of members whose birthdays occurred in April and May, Dora Warwick, MackMackieGainOvenmage, Gen Pemberton and Alice Brandon, the ABC players Tetirned to the municipal building for 'their weekly , afternoon bridge game. Mildred Fellows won the top score `with Lillian Higgins -�ta�ngsecond �`l`a' Mary Nediger's score was lowest. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Thompson spent the holiday weekend at 'Century House'. - - Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Parker, summer residents, were in the village for the first time this season. They were at the Little Inn for dinner on Saturday evening. Their son, Bruce and his family were at their cottage for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Stead were in the village over the holiday. Mr. Stead spent some time at the archives room in search of information about a maternal an- cestor. He and Velma became involved in setting up the window display there. Mr. Chris Borgal of Blyth was at the Little Inn for dinner on Saturday with his parents and uncle and aunt from Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Moore have returned to their home on the Main_ Street after spending the winter months in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Richardson of Hamilton were at the Little Inn for dinner on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Mustard ' were at their Bayfield residence on the weekend. Mrs. Gwen Pemberton had as guests on Sunday her sister and brother-in- law of Ancaster, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Scott, Dr. Vivian Morton was a west at the head table when the University. Women's Club of London celebrated the 60th an- niversary of the Club at a, dinner at the Sunningdale Country Club on Thur- sday last week. Vivian who came to live in Bayfield in the 60's was National' President of the University Women's Club when she lived in .Saskatoon from 1958 to 1961 She_ ►resided ever �^he 15th triennial of the Club when it was held at the University of Western Ontario in London in 1961 and 429 members from across Canada attended the conference at that time. The committee in charge of the Annual Pioneer Park Rummage sale which will be held on Friday, July llth wish to remind residents to remember to save all saleable articles as they carry out their spring clean-up. The girls at The Wardrobe or Mary Crosthwaite will pick up articles if the owners will not be here at the time of the sale. ••.1• John McLeod has returned to HAIrOn College In London for a six week Summer course. John is a regular student at the College where he is studying for a BA degree. Meet our new counemor John Chapman,, a 27 year old resident of the village has been invited to fill the vacancy on the Bayfield Council - to replace Don Warner who resigned recently. Mr. Chapman . has shoiivin a"srlrrvirliage affairs for some time 'by his appearance at public j meetings and council ! meetings and the ex- perience he will gain by sitting on the council for. the few months remaining before the next municipal election will stand him in good stead, as he has indicated his intention to run for council at that time. 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