Clinton News-Record, 1981-08-26, Page 10PAGE 10—THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,1981;
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The Bayfield Garden Club was 'well, represented at a
recent meeting of the 75th Ontario Horticultural
Association convention in Niagara Falls. Left to right are
Catherine and Herb Beatty of Bayfield, Ed Endersby,
immediate past president of the Association, and Jack
and Peg Willock of Bayfield.
Community news and notes
A.B.C. Bridge
Holidays and sunny
weather notwithstanding,
ten members of the group
were out to play bridge last
week.
Highest score was Nancy
McCauley with 5,200;
second, Ruby Uniac with
4,270; and low, Lillian
Higgins with 2,220.
Garden Club
Now is the last chance to
check and make sure you
have renewed your mem-
bership for 1981. Some of the
regulars seem to have
forgotten; and of course, new
members are always
Welcome.
rrtpionship
set for Sept. 11
at Bluewater
The weekly two ball (mix-
ed) was held at Bluewater on
Aug. 18. The winners were
Kay Sharpe & Art Mountford
with net and . gross 36 (very
good shooting) 2nd Mert
Elliott & Lloyd (the chief)
Westlake.3rd Jean Bartliff &
Bill Foster. This week will be
another mixed two ball
event. Don't forget the mix-
ed two ball championship
Sept. 11 at 12:30 p.m. This
will be an 18 hole event, with
the winners taking the
silverware.
Our closing award banquet
will be held Oct. 10, 1981,
with further details to follow.
All members and guests are
welcome.
The two club Champion-
ship are set for ( men's) Sept.
5 (18 holes) and Sept. 12 (18
holes). Three winners will be
decided (A.B.C.) flites. The
ladies (18 holes) will go after
the mens on Sept. 12.
The mens Thursday night
league leaders are J. Stirling
- B. Foster 263 points; 2nd,
G. Telford. - A. McLaughlin
259 points; and third M.
Taylor - J. Oates 256 points.
Individual leaders J. Oates
138, B. Foster 135 high div.,
low div. leaders G. Telford
133 and B. Draper 124.
Draw prize winners were
A. Hughes, A. McLaughlin
and E. Hovey, and closest to
the hole J. Stirling 9 feet 614
inches.
Smile
These days, too many
'beautiful women are spoiling
their attractiveness by using
four-letter words - like don't,
can't, and won't.
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Bobby had been to a birth-
day party and knowing his
weakness, his mother looked
him straight in the eye and
said, "I hope you didn't ask
for a second piece of cake."
"No," replied Bobby. "I
only asked Mrs. Jones for
the recipe so you could make
some like it and she gave me
two more pieces jn.st of her
own accord."
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If you want your wife to
listen, talk to another
woma n .
Premium bulbs in the
spring will only be available
to those fully paid up by
August 31st.. The mem-
bership secretary will be in
attendance at the Garden
Club Stall at the Fall Fair on
Saturday to issue renewals
and new memberships.
Round and About
Ray Schell of Clan Gregor
Apartments, Bayfield, has
been, re -admitted to hospital
in London. One of the first
residents to move into the
apartments, Mr. Schell is
missed by his neighbours,
who all wish him well.
Ode to the dump
there's a bin that'sbeen placed in the village.
.For a specified use -and -that's fair.
It's there for the sole use of people who picnic in Clan Gregor
Square
But it's not being used for this purpose
Now the dump is at Hayfield's town hall
Why drive out to Varna or.Holmesville.
Let the Bay,.fteldites pay for the haul. 0-
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Some
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Some folk from the township. of Stanley
Are relieved of the cost and the fuss
They don't have to drive out to Varna
They can dump all their garbage on us.
To the north -in the Township of Goderic1
There are people that flock to our town
They don't come to patronize merchant
They come to lay their refuse down
I suppose council knows what it's doing
But I honestly fail to see
How making a dump out of Bayfield
Can do airy good for me.
The Bard of Bayfield strikes again.
Another former resident,
Mrs. Mary Nediger, is still in
Clinton Hospital where she
was admitted a few weeks
ago, and she too is wished a
speedy recovery.
Phillip Rhynas of Toronto
was in the village last week.
He visited with Dr. and Mrs.
R.G. Hunter, Mrs. Don
Lance and Mrs. Spencer
Ervine. Mr. Rhynas gave
part of the land which is now
Pioneer Park in memory of
his mother, Margaret
Ferguson Rhynas, and his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Ferguson. He himself,
was formerly Chief of
Operations of the old
ministry of lands and
forests.
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Anderson speaks on hunger strike
By Helen ()wen
"Having assessed your
priorities, the next thing to
do is to stress them," said
James Anderson, Stratford
Archivist, addressing the
August meeting of the
Bayfield Historical Society
on Monday evening last.
Mrs. Peg Willock, program
convenor, introduced Mr.
Anderson, whom she had
first encountered back in
1972 when he had been
engaged in cataloguing her
father's very extensive
collection of papers.
Describing the various
factors which eroded the
work of Archivists, Mr.
Anderson told his audience
of how he decided that he
must do something dramatic
to bring the attention oft,the
general public to the im-
portance and necessity of
maintaining archival
material. His method was to
protest by a 'sit out' on the
roof of the Court House in
Stratford, which also in-
volved a 'hunger strike'.
Having notified the press of
his intentions, he promptly
put them into effect.
Reaction. was not slow to
develop and in no time at all
the media were on the scene
providing the publicity he
sought.
With quiet humour, he
described his first night out
overlooking the city of
Stratford; the delight of
• watching the sunrise, and
the birds, who being early
risers, were the first to in-
vestigate their new roof top
companion During his 36 -
day vigil, when he existed on
a diet of tomatoes and
oranges, he lost 15 lb. ' in
weight, but he did achieve
his purposes in drawing
attention to the need for
funding and support in
maintaining records, which
could otherwise be lost for
ever. . '
He outlined the .political
implications of such a
campaign, and the Way in
which public interest could
be focussed to bring pressure
in the appropriate areas,
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provided the community
could be made aware of the
facts. Having once set a
precedent, he declared,- the
matter was on the books and
could no longer be ignored by
bureaucracy.
He then went on to tell his
audience something of the
archives in Stratford, housed
in the old Registry Office
between the Court house and
the jail, a sturdy building,
practically fireproof and
constructed with good solid
floors capable d bearing the
weight of archival material.
He had discovered, he
said, over the years the
prime importance of never
turning down any donation
that was offered, and in this
way had found that it was
possible to acquire much
valuable material. As an
example of ways to maintain
good public relations, he
quoted the regular
newspaper column put out
by the Archives which not
only fostered interest, but
encouraged the public to
contribute. In one instance,
the Archives had acquired 80
cartons, which had taken
eight months to sort and
classify, as well as careful
and meticulous work in re-
arrangement and preser-
vation in acid free scrap
books with suitable
adhesive.
Talking of pictures, which
he said fell into three groups,
people, buildings and
miscellaneous, hedescribed
the best methods of storage
(in envelopes and handled as
little as possible). They were,
he said, of interest not only
from an historical aspect,
but also because • they
provided material for
genealogical. research.
There were instances where
property owners found them
particularly relevant in
relation to original con-
struction whether in regard
to making' alterations or .
preserving original struc-
tures. It was surprising he
stated, that people would
vandalize an old building
claiming it was theirs to do
with as they wished, whilst
onthe other hand, they
would no more think of
refurbishing an old car with
modern trappings.
Apart from' the general
public, much valuable
material could be obtained
from church records, bap-
tismal registers and
marriage registers. He
displayed books showing
how these were being
recorded and referred to the
cross references required in
the case of marriage, where
the woman's name changed.
An increased budget
meant the acquisition of
proper storage facilities,
particularly important in the
case of old maps and plans
which deteriorated through
continual folding. Some of
the facilities which he was
now able to employ had
derived from a wider con-
cept of what was being done.
His present board, he said
now boasted six politicians
who had devoted one
meeting exclusively to an
examination of the Archives
and their maintenance.
While sorting out the past,
the Archivist had also to
bear in mind the needs of the
future, and ensure that
current events and pictorial
records were carefully
maintained. We needed to
preserve for our successors
the documentary evidence of
the past and the present in
the same way. as museums
preserved the 'hardware.'
Examples of scrap books
and registers were displayed
for the audience to examine.
after the . meeting. Mr.
Anderson had also brought
along a collection of
miscellaneous books, one of
which had once been in the
possession of the Gairdener
family in Bayfield and was of
particular interest to his
listeners. Referring to
examples from the Allen
collection of old accounts
and debtors, Mr. Anderson
reminded his audience that
such documentation became
rarer with the passing of
time, since letter writing had
declined in the age of the
telephone, and handwritten
accountshad been super -
ceded by credit card pur-
-chasing. During the question
period which .followed, Mr.
Anderson dealt with
microfilming methods and
problems of storage with.,
particular reference to
temperature and climate.
Thanking Mr. Anderson,
Miss Dorothy Cox, Archivist
for the Bayfield Historical
Society, recalled how she
had first met him at a
Convention Workshop in
Toronto, which had proved
such a valuable experience.
Members were also
notified of an outing to
Dundern Castle, which it was
hoped could be arranged to
take the place of the Sep-
tember meeting. The date
set was September 17th and
further details would be
available shortly.
Rescued from
flaming boat
Two London men were
rescued on the weekend
after they jumped from their
flaming 25 -foot cabin cruiser
just north of the harbor in
Bayfield.
Lorne Kirkpatrick, 47, of
6l6 Berkshire Dr., owner of
the boat, and a companion,
Gus Rooke, 30, of Southdale
Road, were picked up Satur-
day by Bob Wilson, a London
police department
employee, who saw the
smoke and headed, toward
the craft in his 19 -foot speed-
boat. With him were his wife,
two sons and another officer,
Const. Robin Lawrence.
Kirkpatrick said he and
his friend had pulled anchor
and were preparing to leave
when the motor stalled
twice. He said he smelled
fumes, then flames raced
along the bilge line. He said
he grabbed a fire ex-
tinguisher but couldn't put
out the fire.
Rooke made an emergen-
cy mayday call by radio and
the men grabbed life rings
and dived overboard.
The $15,000 cabin cruiser
sank in about 30 feet of
water.
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