The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-07-18, Page 10Thursday , ,Ji y
ce
town Friduv.
or probl+ that
� bre about working In
! : he answered by IPOOP, set up at the John
4i�ne M. corner on
' of this week.
Spiel (students providing in-
c#ations on employment rights
the . be'tr fortx;
has best set
up by. the ministry of labour as
part of its community out -rem
Program to provide employe
and employers with information
about the laws and the services of
'e' the ministry. Initiated last year
by the. Ontario Youth Secretariat,
Spiel travels to areas away from
the various district offices, to
arrange seminars, lectures,
displays and coverage by the
community media. This year's
teams operate from nine dif-
ferent centres across the
They have
They found that many
people are unaware of current
legislation and the proposed
mages announced recently in
minimum wage, vacation. pay,
' � ,,sof work and -other working
standards.
Another area of interest is the
humanrights code, which deaf
in' the discrimination in work,
housing and public ac-
commodation. The women's.„
bureau, a part of the human
rights commission, specifically
deals in` the problems en-
countered by Ontario women who
are in, or about to .enter* the
labour force. Safety-: laws, and
precautions, while working in
Whot'p new at
Hurolvlew e
The ,finer iner weather of the past
week has been ideal for sight
treeing -drives: in the van, some of
the programs being held out
under the trees.
Mrs- Prouty of Exeter con-
ducted a Bible study and hymn
sing on the; front lawn on Tuesday
afternoon.
Twent0two imeinbers of the
over 80. Club held their Jul
a in the north n
,verandah, on
04100- . How
es of the
riesf
aentertained with;,
ii
:49.1v1tualch, PaE,
au$han:
industry and
information on worknleo.'.s
compensation. in the event of
m , are a highlighted,
One common ..Mise, onception
people have is that t of the
legislation in 1 areas wily
applies to full-time employees.
Whether full or part time, when
pe arise and there are
valid grounds, for a .complaint,
the employee may protect his, or
her, anonymity. ,
The Spiel students in this area
are, Julia Arsenault, Donna Hohk
and Barry Spinner, who work out
of the Kitchener office at 824 King
Street West, telephone (518) 744-
5211. They are happy to arrange
seminars or pamphlets can be
delivered for interested groups,
Wroxeter
Mrs. Stanley Lockwood, Wing-
ham, spent the weekend with
Mrs. Harold Townsend.
Weekend guests with Mr. and
Mrs. Mac Allan were Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Hodgins, Toronto.
Mrs. George Griffith, Mrs.
William Hart and Mrs. Ross
Sanderson `visited during last
week with Mrs. Glenn Mc-
Kercher at their trailer home,
Bayfield. ,
Jamie'
Toronto,.
spent a few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Sanderson.
Mr. and Mrss. Tom Shore and
family :visited a few days last
week with 'Mrs, Shore's parents,
Mr, and Mrs. Robert Fryers, in
Hamilton.
Mrs, Flame McIQtee, Weston,
was a weekend guest . with her
mother, Mrs. Ross Sanderson.
Mrs. William Hart and Miss
Hazel Sparling attended the.
"Friendship Tea" in honor ' of
Miss Linda' Hutton, bride -elect of
next month, at the 'home of her
mother, Mrs. Lou Hutton, Wing -
ham, on Saturday last.
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Manuel,
Seaforth, v
is_
ited
their aunt,
Miss
H.ar� S li��on Monday eve -
gin
t ti.•
nit/ t;
6The a wiU'e - Sunday' San*
et , Wroxeter United Church until •
September. Combined worship
services will be held. in Gerrie for
the: next two Sundays.
Ston Centennial Band -
for
.a concert on the lawn
11y night, The leader of the
Rev. Dwight Strain and his
it, :. Mrs. Mary Hearn,
+e
ve a greatdeal' of Creditfox
vmg.leadership, and training to
the 30: young.musicians andwe
they will.
find: time to visit us
.LL, s er1
r��tce sr�d�t�g.
3 crtMi�al °cas+�s
Wingham Police Chief Jim Kil-
ler reports that members of his
for=e are conducting at least
three crhninal investigations -fol
lowing incidents in town last
w.
One of the investigations con-
cearns a possible break and entry.
at Bridge Motors on Josephine St.
Thepolice°received reports that a
window, had been brokei on the
premises and a small quantity of
tobacco and cigarettes were mis-
sing. The owner did not notice
any other articles missing but
police are continuing their In-
vestigation.
Police are also looking' into. a
ptlislble case of vandalism which
occurred on Saturday evening.
Polite Constable Ed Daer is in-
vestigating the incident in which
the front window of Elliott's In-
surance Agency on the main
street was broken. Police are
questioning a youth in connection
with the incident but they say
there are conflicting reports as to
haw the damage actually oc-
curred. rred. The approximate cost for
replacing the window will be $650.
Police were called to Joe Kerr
Ltd. on Josephine 'St. last week
after Mr. Kerr reported the theft
of some gas from one of the ve-
hicles on his property. Police are
s idying the matter which may
be conssetted to thefts of gas re-
ported earlier in the month at
Marks' Bros Auto Body Shop.
Over the past week police laid
six charge: of creating unneces-
sary noise pursuant to the High-
way Traffic Act. Chargees were
'laid against Dennis Eisenhoffer
of Wingham, Ron Riley of
Wroxeter, Johns Hson of RR
4, Wingham, Ivan Metcalfe, C. J.
Hetherington and Robert Os-
borne of RR 2, Wh hum..
Police also charged Robert
e'er of RR 1, Warsn with
Wingpossession of liquorat a
*AzarOther than Ws
Mrs. Helen Linge, Cleveland,
has been visiting with, her sister,
Mrs. Nora Moffatt.
Harold Moffatt is on a bus trip
to
'the West Coast and the nor-
thern- states.
OPP reports four NO
Officers of the Wingham OPP
detachment investigated four
property damage accidents
'during the period between July 8
uid July '14.
On Monday, July 8? Irene Dob-
son of RR 1, Formosa and' Garry
Campbell of Oakville were in-
volved in a Bayo' car collision on
Highway.e6,.east of the Maitland
River . bridge. Damages have 1
been set at $350: ch
The following day a Missis- ni
sauga man, James Bannon, Hi
escaped injury in a single car in
accident. The mishap occurred
on Highway&t at its junction with
Highway 4. Damages were
miner.
Lennie Whitfield of RR 3, Blyth,.
was involved in a single car acci-
dent on Huron County Road 16 on
Friday. Investigating officers
Talent
' MtM^ o, (*Mee .R" li
fid' wr of Wingham, has xis
y�y�pub .another
acclaimed p salon of Sixtrt
Merles, entitled Something g: f"
Been Messing to Tell You. This
the third took she has pubiilshe►d
since 1 , each one brIn
raves. from reviewers ever
wire and increasing her reputa
tion as one of Canada's most SUC
cessfui and well-known writers
Alice Munro's greatest talent
her uncanny ability to look, in.
her past and draw out for her
reader, events, situations and
even individual words, .to evoke
personal !memories both pleasant
and unpleasant, which have long
lain forgotten in our subcon-
scious. These are not grand or
important situations or declara-
tions which have changed the
world, but rather are so-called
trivial things which we have all
experienced; things which have
Moulded our lives and made us
the people we are today.
Alice Munro writes fiction. She
insists that her stories are from
her imagination and that her
characters are fabrications. Yet
everyone who reads her first per-
son narratives will recognize
people they know and situations
they have 'experienced. This is
especially true for Wingham
readers for it is obvious that Mrs.
Munro's fictional town of Jubilee
is in fact Wingham. The, Wawa -
nosh River is without doubt the
Maitland and many descriptions
of characters are people we actu-
ally know or have known.
This makes her books tremen-
dously appealing to natives of
Wingham, but readers through-
out Canada and many other parts
of the English-speaking world are
also reading and enjoying Alice
Munro's stories: He first collec-
tion of short stories, Dance of the
Happy Shades, (1968), brought
smiles of recognition and recol-
lection not. only to those who
shared her growing up experi-
ence in Wingham, but also to
thousands of readers and review-
ers erverywhere. Farr this collec-
tion she was awarded Canada's
. highest literary prize, The Gov-'
ernor General's Award, and
hailed as "one of the most pro-
mising talents on the literary
scene.
Three years: later Mrs. Munro
ublish
edw
at l
p what believe to be her
finest work to date. ' Her '' novel,
L�,vestitir Git�lh lased." vomeii" *at'
wrirtetin ltdeh r ble''
candor and penetrating insight
into life in a small town that I
read some of the chapters several
'times, savouring her lucid des-
criptions and pointed barbs, at
small town pomposities and .lttli-
crous social 'distinctions, of,which
we are instinctively aware, yet
never verbalize, much less
record and publish. This is the.
real joy in reading Mice Munro;
d author is V1/
Ithe ext our attitudes,
'odes our pretensions and OW
�y the our foibles. Her OtelrieS
p
flus to view ourselves and et*
vQ friends, and neighbor ob ecct
Is, ly" .. the outside, ast '.
Munro is able to do now that
by her own admission, is an es
• skier to our community,
" This is also why some w .
• hamites have been offended by
• some of Alice Munro's writing.
is Her stories are candid, de scrib-
te ing the hypocrisy as wellas the
piety, the snobbery as well at the
neighborliness, the lust as well al
the romance, the eccentricity; aa
well as the conformity, mi4
enness as well as the stiff
ri y. Those who believe that
isy, snobbery, fornication
drunkenness do not existin
our community, or at least that
these things should not be writ
about, may be distressed by.ceir-
taip incidents, characters and
words used in these stories; ' .4
Nevertheless, it is clear that
Mrs. Munro is not writing an
idealized Victorian -style account
of growing up in a small town, but
is frankly exposing her own emo-
tions and impressions., To
describe Saturday evenings at
the dance pavilion north of town
without mentioning the drinking,
the coarse behaviour of certain
patrons, the high emotions and
the resulting personal conflicts
would be to distort the whole rea-
lity of that situation.o describe
daily trek of students, down
John Street hill to the restaurant
for a "draft coke", 'without des-
cribing the cliques, affectations,
and snobberies, would be to
• underestimate the great soci'k
importance of that daily parade:
Neglecting to stress the crucial
importance of Sexual curiosities
and relationships in teen-a8e life
would leave suck a void as to
• make a credible story concerning
a teen-age girl impossible. Avoid-
ing one's parental and sibling
conflicts would also render an ac-
f,
count of adolescence meaning-
less. Alice Munro has included all
these and more aspects of youth.
As a result her stories evoke .a
great sense of identification and
recognition.
One recognizes and feels the
humiliation at seeing one's name''.
at the bottom of the list' of
raa
examination tion se
s l
is
pu
blislie
d
uis .
the local press because. we felt' ito
tow Oiletfaiesai.=te
exciternttPtifibtrildirld Attila ail&
floating it'down the Maitland`'be-
cause
e -cause we did that too. Weare rei4
minded of the public school musi-
cal 'concerts when. we rill filedtl
down, two by two, from+'the sec--
ond story of the old Wingham
Public School, down, those old''
creaky, dark stairs, down the hill
to the musty, old town hall audi-
torium with its royal blue cur-
tain. We feel again the hope and'
then the disappointment of not
being chosen .to participate and'
the joy of having half -holidays in )
order to practice. We experience
anew the exasperation and scold-,' '
ings of often rather eccentric
teachers attempting to control
our behaviour and perfect our
performances, standing at the
back of the dark auditorium cry-
ing, "I can't hear a word back
here ! " But we had almost forgot-
ten about these events and emo-
tions surrounding them, until
Alice Munro reached into her
memory, recovered them and put
them in story form in order to re-
mind us all.
Sometimes it is almost embar-
rassing to meet again the people,
places, events and emotions of
one's youth,oto see in print how
trivial, gossipy and even
humorous they all were when one
thought them so important and
serious at the time. One some-
times feels outrage, as though all
of one's hidden past and deepest
inlUry mishaps
estimated the damage at 0500.
On Saturday, Darryle Baylor, a
resident .of - Fordwich struck a
parked truck in the Fordwich
Feed Mill parking lot. Damages
to both vehicles have been
reported as $875 in total.
During the week OPP officers
carried out 12 investigations
under the Liquor Control Act with
2 charges being laid. Ten
arges were 'laid and 16 war-
ngs were issued under the
ghway Traffic Act and 23 other
vestigations were made.
—Jim Beattie was the speaker
at the morning worship service in
St. Paul's Anglican Church on
Sunday. Leading the congrega-
tion in worship was Don Farnell.
na
secret* War* .lLu o
all to rood. Vet Weis what ..._
compelling about Ni Munro
stories, We see net merely
exterior, the pleasant and
rable dam, but also the�'"
lying � 01 opo.
ful experience" '_have closeted
away.* the back of minds
In her boob,. $omen
I've' ► meaning Y;
Mrs. Munro presents thirt
more storieswhich reflect
change in her outlook and styli
Although some of the so�rtes ar
drawn from youth in a sma
town, sheprogresses beyond t
familiar ,scenario to relate t.
etnQtiona and events of ttniver
sity, early marriage, marital
problem , patentbood, and life, in
a faraway big city. The stories jn
this new book are, more dif fiohlt;
and perhaps less entertaining,
with much more complex, yet
somehow ill-defined characters,
With the eaCeption of mother,
whom. we have met many times
before, the new characters seem
to be:;,adowy figures who pass
through and over. her life -she
does not seem to know .them well
and therefore, the. reader doh
not know them well either.. She
has last her roots and seems to
know neither herself nor anyone
else verjy Well, The stories are
emotionally. complex and those
which are written in first person
convince us, that the Del Jordan
of The Lives of Girls and Women
has not changed or matured very
much. If anything.she, is more
cynical, more 'moody, 'more self'.
conscious' and more unsure_ of
herself.,.She has std. been' unable
to "find herself" and feelings
of inferiority, have t abated
since she left "the- flats road".
41
The qualities which we found
quite acceptable,and�'niatur'al in a
fifteen -yea .old.from the country
seem quite incongruent outrun:-
comfortable
nd"un-
comfortable in a; well-educated,
Middle-class wife and. mother./
We no longer identify with her so
strongly. Itis skit we gave grown
up, leaving her behind as a 'fit-
teen -year-old. We no longer know
her friends, her environment, her
life style; or her emotions. Per-
haps it is she who has matured
and left us behind? Even when.
the first,;person of the stories re-
minisces about her.youth,_ the
characters and ' events she re-
q`
mem
her h
s
ave become more un-
t ,�.
agreeable, and the events and
emotions are almost exclusively
ne"gate,
o..
The structure of these stories is
rather loose and disjointed. It
seems, sometimes that one has
opened= _a:novel randomly and
read five pages in the middle of a
chapter. We often do not know
what has caused an event or emo-
tion and what the result will be.
Thus, one is often dissatisfied on
completing a story. One has the
*ling that perhaps
��{'st`
714'sil7 t
� baps t� ?��
memo. Leh ,have; nda ed. PerldapMi
we need someone �y ultimo
pain , in English literature to explain
and, > i rterpret,. or perhaps
yam. � a
missing, Detling that leaves
Yin "
One vaguely. discontent.,
sen • leverthel s, ice' Munro has
a not lost her extrao"wess.
P • ' ubgerving and remembering
e the trivial and commonplace, and
'1 making, .us observe and remern*
her too. She does tido hest in her
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