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y firQncr its' all,, I141 ' 4 j,
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'. though, it°takes a ".lot orpe sun-
e
t
o'
l of :poe sed o .654Year.
.
retired farmer to drive j.a"'
• ,two-wh . cele.
instead, of the.YMiusd
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"When
I n
doip
litOre
•
x. 'ne a
ti?Ie examiner :was kind of
:cwriced
,me
see a 1 ` r
0
f
e motoreyele,lieence. But X took
ie, test, railed the first one,
`1
Patna balk and passed it the:
'second:tide» town Esc" ha
was�►�' � '
.. feet �y
were e tooting for me"" be said,
As a matter of'fact, With that'..
Motorcycle Uwe, I Tan drive
an en theground now
a tractor to a '80001 boa,'"
1
he 1ny' M
Mus
p
ti
The oldest *�.. M '
active
sehon
1
driver for *towel is ; Sectom-
oM�mil: ili8t' as one.
Samuel . y ';.
fes
heightt five, feet end:nine
e heh
es
ualified' for chauffeur's licence'
includin _ 'Schoo,l s' rt
� a Mot
metorcyreles.
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she �d
o d�:a
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t
a�a
,.a
peer �M,Itcre 'tial :lin:We1tee
p
Grp 'for almost ,.''.years.1HCi hail
been a laborer"at a: Mill,•d a house
in 1933; the same year 'aecor
. Sam, that appletreekfrorp
fro
inr 48 ree'"ow ger o:
w
threat
of 1G
I.>
.
p-tb
n
t
no a1d.atliY'a
t`
artYl o
.' rth8 the
o$t,
.a
(her , . y
11I
t''. itlie'
>� .c took. . family farm
over fro
m m father." tither 'he said,
0
e.
' VVh he farming, was ,Sai�
r.�
found time �to be :a,,director ofe
th
fQle
swor
Cheese •V
aCtQry for
nineyears and president
for ��ire, �.
Never ' . any. ,g
rass "grow
under.his feet
, lxe showed horses_
atir`
faars. and took a t`iealth ::
number oaf bone. for 11
"I was always a 'bard, worker,
at's, my amend Vie." : f:
..In MO. the ripe .old itgo of350,
had enough of the` fin life
,'retired. Sam , 'a f .
d:: tQ
being d�ni tecomfortably" 'set lit..
daily, when +eet�he.retairedw,».1:�e�d,"
,inT
.�' hoose at Iiia "edge of rte,
hl►'l eon.
• �St,
•
eft • a
h bitnicelf..
-
fact,he,becane.
adept at
1
u
hQ. v
".T `Two .
tt 15. ;more' ons tib' average
e 41 year. But
that's
`;getting
• liittl , ah, d' f,
e. ea 4 � `� �l .
" . _ � .:end
bis`: wife Were all Setfor
. the nIce,,,
comfortable 'e moa
. teaoo expect
a wor ' towards . #� �► ids :an..earay�.
�retfre ,ent G
e" e
m,
flan
aye the
.. move.,
Sam:
a
th
e.
o'.
•"h m
ea
�� t
'a, Mus
r�
dh1 w8s..
-u
K
. Q
would ' :drive,. : nae. : Of them
k
thilYa$..: r. ..
than e
ce
h
e ` ari
seems Mau
e�'y...■(ad figur
e vgrY w d he 1
weekend
move into his new house u wn in ,
fo
,
,sff
Gh� t c
Q i ilal
aatl
lettt
a'tei.
tell
him
that
that ere ap�'ids
a
high ;hoo1 busdriver. Sam said
'
thanks, but with the house still
unfinished and�" �Mewing
. ever,-
thin in 'it:
would; be:�impossible.'
� , � ...,
But .:the officialersist e -
p e+d, proper''retiredentleman?
saying that this was fi chance *
thoasand... These types 'of ° •
_ were 'few'a .:
'Thatbetween. r
of his moving,' Sam '
' .t'
Widecontra
wt
eY'
s►k ev a to
ee d� $" .a►
make the morning rounds and
...
.turns in the'afternoon
tO4lro
'Iii° .aR erootdel
ntWtor
t''
htd 1
10d
4.1.Wentto he neof �
tli
want e`
Aa thein ter r os t e
:
.
whether
you'rewith x
?gy
or�yearxdi
one of e
t, td�isa
the gang."
; ontehow, Sam
stereetype bus driver - ':
the <kids �to "sit +down"'
ave'a war wit t`
e
e�y are
.ail �� o
d •
such athing aa � � bar •
p
a
Y
T
eh T�
es"have
can't. tell a
Nearing a �lo. aly'
ar v�
� � dress.
don't a preciate it. Oh.�the. '0
p.
one does,but "most Of them
I like ableto' 'tote
:a girl
w�1
I
nice.
Qat•�But: that*..the 'ou
change in�, kids in thetime
e I
been dri in
".
Whatilio t"the'.
`1i�h t a i� quiet life of
Music Bug"
Three years ago Sam didn't
know which end of the bag was
up.
In December 'he. will be going
down to Miamii Fla., to march in
the Orange Bowl parade'with the
Massed Legion Pipe' Band.
One day he had a , busload of
LDSS students on their way to
Godetich. There was a chanter
(mouthpiece of'a bagpipe) on the
busand he began to "fool with
it".• , •
"I decided, then, I wanted .to
learn how , to play the pipes. I
never had the time to do it
before."
After eight. months : of deter-
mined practising, he was ready.
He joined the band.
Not bad• for 65.
But the pipes only added to the
list of instruments Sam plays. On
any Sunday morning, just about
the break of dawn, he'll be up-
stairs, picking at his banjo,
mandolin, saxophone or his
favorite, the fiddle.
{,� With i. a healthy"'+r of: �.,,in
f horn:, ' Sam }}��ty
y . •wt '
head hla Awife stir. But. by.' the
time "ti's Out ,to t him. te.'
the ' "down to a-7‘dull roar,:
he's gone, gone to, tent to one of
hnan
over iefee»
"I love' to talk. too."
But tef
talent* r Qt" imisic mid
ofthegab 't. there. Ile
'.
heads Op * lie orchestra ; th
�. at'e
,
beet o fora num of years./
�0 . ,9 .ui te' �)►, AS they
, ,
Roili Stones,.' he tpm's
O.ellestraVEM hold its'
wth:
most o�p�westoert, `and sore'.dance
gru «: ' y •
f
Cooltui
t.
but 1"e + 't uitth, e' tt s
it the Mood.
d
Aas
py�g, you
' dli ua ' allflow: its
the si roes
da
�
Mice . . a
crazy.
.. aoo � u • admit
t 'hair ,t., come too e
'ot:
a
•'th
.bo
or ;toth
oto
hand d e• np
hammer d'
saw.
,Week
Aing ltd
:tet
those
13
a and"be tiredbeing
s;masters 'carpenter. Sam..is ,bit
.a
o an *Venter.,
es
_ adx � tors
bu
h, �_ t nothing.
like the r thing.
lot s:
Fake
tl eirs l kt ' mane butle pan
pelt mine p ;'' a •Pip
m:. at:/�-��1 ---1 y �yis
w 4ei ,.tool 'that are
b(doorottom ced in half with ;top and.
*000014
.
He said he thought of it a few
years *wend `tried it. It's worked,
for him. He's now working on his
46th. ''
At this point he has over 100 of
them ' on order. To meet the de-
mand he would have to take at.
least two years working steadily,
assuming no more orders come
in. Of course, more will.
"I'm .only doing it for a hobby.
If it was a business I couldn't
talk. I'd have to work all' The
time."
'he,sheds cost $400 each, un-
painted. Since Sam is able to
make one a week, he's been
asked many times to go into the
business.
He won't do it, of course; it
might cut into his talking thne,
his bus route, his orchestra, his
pipe band and whatever else this
65 -year-old man decides to get
himself (and usually his almost -
as -energetic wife, Agnes) into. '
"I started it about two years
ago. People from Kitchener and
Wo come
.see illsty'cl right
away a las 1111107could.
•
buY , .Ti 's how 4p .
sd» You, can see sib
'Mine in the ritsiestsections down .
Op on tbwd
"Larry Mw e,r, the ham.
..1,rethers. bought one to use it as'a;:
Walled—,he
-1;1it-
ld eo much tieY:>+'ed
the }
tools' out moved
.,
selves inn.' Tito ;use it as.a -
a» r4
doing at
«
P e eY
44 •
with
tth_ m�,...
a .horsefigure is
,cut
from.
d .on +.Y
ba door,
Sain
had
ae.
a
armv.
eSOO ho
d
of. :tui•
t
he we
till
o
m
do t return
two
a.
;
,ateyHe's
with
l
other th activities: w ,
'':° ouldq
ever
`
want
to"m'
his tri
rida leve ear;
y
B*fey
y
07.
Since
1970, as. Sam h
oae�
toFloridaf t:: ens
� a t�six w a
year
to
• �
never itved:Un'tdI find
About two years
T
bought( eland ;,fin. ��s
right neitt tp�'..
Disneyland.:. He sand: h
reasohable price
? fir'
"reasonable.' ee for the: .•
He has no intention of selling
"We have a patio .cin the land
and that's all: We drive in and
hook up everything . and it's/ as
good as a home. The people down
there. are real niee ' Oust about
once every time we go down they
get:us to put on a show. They even
have me building some things. i
pro mised two barns to friends
down there already."
Homework
Walking through SamTimm's
house is like strolling through a
museum of the great works of
Sam Timm. It's not -that 'he's
boastful. Far from it. It's just
that the man has done so much
that hiding it would be like a 300 -
pounder tucking his stomach into,
a $2 -inch waistline.
Anything from -building cabi-
nets to carving figures to finish-
ing floors . to laying tiles is up
Sam's alley.
Next to one of his 'own barns,
painted red out front, he has a
miniature windmill that he says
many have asked him to dupli-
cate.
"It works real good, too."
Out back, a picnic table with a
.type of roof overhang, reminis-
cent of his barns, adds to the
finely manicured layout of the
yard.
The garage, which houses his
Kawasaki, must also make room
for an his tools. An electric, power
saw sits on a child's wagon.
"That way if it starts raining
while I'm working, I can just pull
it right in." Of course.
Out front, you could mistake
the driveway for a parking lot. In
addition to the large camper, sits
a van with "Sam Timm" on the
side, the family car and at times
the motorcycle.
But it was all earned and like
anyone else Sam has faced some
hard tunes.
Please turn to Page 3
PIPING -Asa member- o i estlned
�ihwe Mases p1r
to appear In the Orange:130Ni Para in late '
Sam brushes up a bit in his. living rte. #te
abouf three years •ago' at the
STRIKE UP THE BAND—'i'he only problem witfi that Cali
to arms is Sam wouldn't know which way to turn. 140 not
only plays the saxophone, but picks at the banjo, mandolin
and fiddle. Agnes, his wife, adds her soft touch with an
accompaniment on the piano.
M AN IS KAWASAKI ► TTf NO ertlE D IMS iROW%W At Ms m TIMM 1$
is st r't1.. to "1et the good times roil". ...in. his motorcycle cl: ens of
rother'.things ►.... , , �. �! , , _ . . , Y � +fir rli�p x
freight expect fes+ an energetic qaa ldr Sam keeps moving along.
ALL OFF m snilles as grartddaughter Debbie Stephens
hOtvi off the Listowel District adpndsry school bus he
drives five• days a week. HIS first slop Is his own house
Why Debbie has 1ivi'ed for the polo three years.
Y1T ANOTNIK TALINT Sam, ,
, , . took picture of the Clydesdales that pull the r
fir' a miniature replica of H. He put It on his sof is his
w� 1tt t� Louis gar
basement which he, .et "course, hilt himself.