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PAGE BA---GUt RICH . SIGNAL,STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1973
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Don Carr and his wife Martha were presented with the Goderich Sailing Club trophy and a
plaque Sunday afternoon after they emerged winnet•s of the third annual Goderich Sailing Club
Fireball Regatta. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are members of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club at
Toronto.
Al Shonborn of the Beaver Valley Yacht Club itr Torontb with Jim.Mulherq of -the Goderich
Sailing Club as crew placed second. Brian Cramer, with his brother Bruce as crew, sailing from
the Grand Bend Yacht Club placed third. Second and third place finishers received a Goderich.
Sailing Club pennant.
The regatta consisted of four races, two held on each Saturday and Sunday, with the best
three times counting for) final,. placing.
There were thrills ani,spills on Saturday as the boats circuited the nine mile course in 10
knots winds. Su-nday,,tcvinds were lighter and shifting but organizers say the 1973 race was the
best, yet with "regard to sailing conditions.
1n al1,17 boats entered the competition, four from Goderich, and others hailing from Niagara,
Hamilton, Sarnia and Toronto.
Couiity CovnciI picnk
Hurpn County Council an-
nual picnic was held Wed-
nesday, July 18 at Seaforth.,
Results of the various races
and draws are:
Boys 5 and under, Michael
Pullen, Jan Davidson; girls 5
and under, Susan Elston,
Karen Schade; boys 7 and un -
Road .workers
from district
attend course
Several municipal employees
in the area have recently atten-
.ded a course sponsored by the
Ontario Good . Roads
Association and held at the
University of Guelph..
They were Melvon' Good of
Colborne Township; Stan
Meriam of the Town of
Goderich; Harvey Culbert of
the Township `of -West
Wawanosh; Joseph Lyal
Maclntyre, Ashfield; and Gor-
don Miller, Auburn, of the
County of Huron staff.
Various, courses are given
each year and are designed to
assist municipal road ,em-
ployees in their everyday
operations.
der, Mark ,Moring, Ian
MacKinnon; girls 7 and under,,
Carla Thompson, Nancy
Mulvey and Deborah Profit
(tied). -
Boys 9 and under, Gordon
Nevery, Scott Profit; girls 9 and
under, Leanne Moran, Jill
•` McCutcheon; boys 11 and under,
Bill Shewfelt, Brian She}vfelt; .
girls 11 and under Shelley'
McLeod, Joan Sills,
Boys 13 and under, . Brian.
Shewfelt, Kim Thompson; girls
13 and under, Shelley McLeod,
Jill McCutcheon.
County Councillors' timed
walking race, Wilmer J.
Cuthill; Ex -Wardens' timed
walking race, Walter Forbes;
Ex -Wardens' wives timed
walking race, -Mrs. Wm. Dale;
County Councillors' wives
timed walking race, Mrs. Anson
McKinley.,
kick-the-slipper (under .
21), Beverly Elston, Lori Beat'
tie; ladies' kick -the -slipper (21
and over),: Jean Ginn, Mrs.
Stan Profit.
Boys' draw (under .15),
Trevor Fortune, David Alexan-
der; girls' draw (under 15),
Nancy Mulvey, Cathy
McKinley; current year's
County Councillors' draw,,
Gerry
raw,-
Gerry Ginn, Allan Campbell;
current year's County Coun-
cillors' wives draw, Mary
Thomas, Mrs. Allan- Campbell.
Men's draw prize (15 and
over), ` Bill Dale, David Ar-
chibald; women's draw prize
(15 and over, Grace Forbes,
Greta Nediger.
. " Oldest person, Arthur
Nicholson; youngest, person,
Scott Vodden; supper draw,
George Bailie.
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SUGAR 'N' SPICE
When I was young and
ignorant and life was forever,
nothing bored me more than
"old people" talking so much
about death.
As soon as my Dad received
his hometown weekly paper, he
would flip to the obituaries and
read them to my mother, inter-
spersing the printed word with
comments about the deceased.
Often the latter was a distant
cousin, or someone father- had
gone to -school with or someone
he'd recall where the dead per-
son had lived, what he'd done
and some of his peculiarities..
I couldn't imagine why my
mother• could be bbthered
listening. She didn't, of course.
She was much too busy bustling
around, cooking or sewing or
doing a wash. But she preten-
ded to, and would drop in the
occasional comment or correct
him on a date.
Now that I am oldo and not
quite so ignorant and realize
the brevity of our stay, I can
understand. It wasn't a mor-
bidity on my father's part. It
was an interest in, and
awareness of, the fact that
death comes for us all, even for
the archbishop. He knew it was
closing in on his generation.,
quietly -but relentlessly.
I am not about toz, start
reading obituaries as a regular
pre -dinner treat, but I did read
three lately, with a sense of
almost pe�rsonal loss, though I
didn't lcinow any of the three
"involved", if that's the word.
Joe E. Brown. The name
means nothing to young people
today. -But it recalled for me
Saturday afternoon at the
matinee, almost falling out of
my seat from laughing at., the
antics of this great clown.
Betty Grable. She was never,
much of an actress, but she was,
a great Hollywood personality,
in the days when 'there were
such creatures: Pin-up girl of
the western world -'before- the
centre -page, all -nude fold -out
was dreamed „p(.
Veronica Lake. Fell half in
love with her when I saw her
first movie. She contrived to
look sexy and sinful in the days
before bikinis and bra -less
bosoms.
Brown was an old man. But
Grable and Lake were in their
fifties, forgotten by the world
but not exactly doddering.
Each had a distinguishing
specialty. Joe E. Brown had a
mouth about the size of half- a
water melon. Grable had legs
that inspired an innocent sort
of lust at a time when atr•ugly,
-exposed navel would have been
just that. Lake wore •long,
blonde hair over one eye. Half
the girls in town went around
half -blind trying to emulate her
hair -do
My feelings of nostalgias were
brought to a focus yesterday.
My wife and I were at the.
beach. She -was flat out, turning
black under the sun, as is her
wont. I was sitting up like a
gentleman, in a chair, carefully
covered but still turning red in
exposed areas, -as is my wont.
Near us on, the sand was a
young couple, very handsome,
with a little boy, very bad. He
was bugging the life out of
them; kicking sand in their
faces; throwing cold water on
their hot, dry bodies; °running,
off and having to be fetched;
demanding that his father do
six things at once. But he ,was
cute.
My wife watched, then asked
nostalgically ' and, tenderly,
"Would you/like to be young
again like that, with the little
ones?"
I thou ht carefully for 12 or
13 'seco ds and replied, "No."
I to ant it. When I look at
my ab, I'd like to be twenty,
eve ten years younger. When
m seed wart is throbbing and
y bursitis in the- shoulder --is
Straughan reunion held
at Harbour Park` site
On a weather -perfect Sun-
day, July 15, -approximately 70
Straughans came together in,
Harbour Park a' Uoderich
of President Andrew
Straughan; ,Vice -President Ed
Strub; , Secretary -Treasurer
f r w.• atnescon-
vener, Edward Straughan''; and
Social Conveners Louise
Laidlaw and Ruth Jardin.
their 76th annual picnic, only
three of which 'have been
missed by William Straughan
of Auburn.
During the afternoon, Ed-
ward Straughan organized
races for the children, while the
adults participated in less
strenuous competitions. Mrs.
George Cowan was honored as
being the oldest lady, and
William Straughan as the
patriarch of the clan.
Additional prize -winners
were Joanne Laidlaw, Ruby
Anderson, Doris Hicks, Nor-
man Ball, ' the Hicks family,
Sammye Straughan, .and Ger-
trude arid Alex Anderson from
Dayton, Ohio, who delighted
all by their presence
Jack Hicks welcomed the
family and Wm. Straughan led
in grace for the evening meal.
Resulting from the business
meeting, the'1974-picnic is plan-
ned for the third Sunday in
July, the 21st, at Harbour Park,
Goderich, under the leadership
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burning like acid, I'd like to be
thirty years younger.
But when I think of the
agony and ,the ecstasy of star;,
ting all over . again, raising
those kids, sanity speaks.
Days at the beach; sur/ But,
even though watching th n like
hawks, the sudden disap-
pearance of one, and- the fren-
zied running up and down,
searching, until the child was
found playing with a dog, forty
feet from the water.
Summer nights in a small
town, yes. Until a four-year-old
vanished at bedtime, and the
frantic running around the
block, calling wildly, knowing
there was a deep ditch full of
water, and the rage when little
miss was discovered watching
TV next door. Nope.
Sweating out music festival
adjudicators_ remarks I can do
without.
Trying to steer out of drugs
and - into education} I Can
manage to give .,up.
I think I can even tiacirifice
Santa Claus parades and -riding
with tots on the ferris wheel at
the midwa .
No, 1 don't w tto be young
again. It's too hard on a chap.
I'm ,saving what's left for my
grandchildren.
We'll walk on the beach, and
in the woods. And I'll answer,
from my pinnacle. of ignorance,
all those impossible questions
kids ask. And when • I' m stuck,
I'll say, "Go and ask your gran-
nie."
Death, -where is thy sting?
Grave, where is thy victory?
It's great to. be getting old.
Well, anyway, older.
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