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Clinton News-Record, 1984-04-11, Page 411A41121984 ' .?„ BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1983 1.otliiiototi Rich tolio•41109443. .;441*07t, .0 404,40,/*101/0:44,,Pir WOW' • 0.0,0#4 'Wear ft Is rosibolsrei Pao** Ow WA** pose offico.liss#s psiontl siprokor •IsorArOtttAisfrol 1,4W,.._soSIllisi: WO* *wan OsowslEoril. Llos0,01'n 11,40i, um' Th,CAloststo Sisso foulti:44,41 11441. TOO gloms two $..700. Clinton - New:s-R Incoriiiirating THE BLYTH STANDARD J. HOWARD AITKEN - Publisher SHELLEY McPHIEE - Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager MARY ANN HOLLENBECK - Office Manager MEMBER A ae, MEMBER Displaw advertising' rotes available on request. Ask for Mate Cord. No. 14 effective October 1, VOSS. Green thumb season With spring officially here and all the green thumbers about to come out of hibernation, now is a good time to give the local horticultural societies a boost. Clinton, Blyth, Bayfield and Auburn each have active garden clubs, that are part of the 250 socitiesin Ontario who boast a membership of more than 55,000 gardeners, or near gardeners. You don't have to be an expert to join one of the Ioca horticultural clubs. In fact, a .gardener just starting up would be best advised to join the local society to get advice on any plant' problem. Our local Horticultural Societies are aimed for gardeners of all ages and their work is geared to the expert and amateur gardeners. • Most clubs hold monthly meetings that feature a wide range of topics for the in- door and outdoor gardening enthusiast. As, well, our area garden clubs also make a strong commitment to beautifying our municipalities. Their work around our towns on dozens of beds and gardens is self evident throughout the whole summer, as the members pour hundreds of volunteer hours into placing and caring for thousands of plants that make our area more afficictiiia to local residents and visitors alike. — Several of the local, societies also sponsor special events and competitions dur- ing the year, that afford not only the members but the general public a chance to show off his or her best horticultural interests. For only a few dollars you can. join HcietiCultural Clubs 'in Clinton, Bayfield, Aubufn-of-Bayfielek-The-gFeup--vvill-not-only-heip4n-your-eitorts_td_im.punte_your own grounds, WI in the long run, the entire community. A worthwhile gift .4 While donating body organs may be repugnant to some people, says the Exeter Times -Advocate, a large majority probably have.no qualms about what is remov- ed after their death. In fact, many indicate that they would consider it worthwhile to have' those organiused tdim.Prove the quality of life for some. recipient. However, statistics indicate that there• still remains a critical shortage of such organs as kidneys for the couple of hundred Ontario residents who could be spared frornffie costly and time-consuming ordeal of dialysis if there were suffi- ,cient donorc.,, A London kidney specialist, appointed co-chairman of a task force designed to raise. ay.fareness of the need for kidney donations, says the problem is not that people don't want to help, but that they can't face the idea of death. As a result -they don't give theii-' consent on the optional portion df their driver's licence to donate their organs in case of death. Therefore, half the 400 people in Ontario re- quiring kidney 'transplants each year have to confine enduring dialysis treatments. Thanks to new drugs which reduce rejection rates, kidney tlransplants are close to 90 per cent successful. Transplants represent a one-time cost of $15,000 to $20,000 in comparison to the annual cost of $30,000 for dialysis done in hospitals. Successful transplants also mean patients can be healthy, normal, productive people again. Given that set of circumstances, it is rather' disappointing that so few willing donors are available. • Think about it! Why haven't you signed the consent form on. your driver's licence? Behind 'The Scenes By Keith Roulston Behind the scenes. Probably only people who must endure winters like we have in Canada can truly ap- preciate spring. Driving by the field of a neighbor who let his cattle out into the spring air of a still - brown pasture field, I watched the young calves kick up their heels and thought all Of us, young and old are a little like that. It starts with the battle of the boots around our house. The first warrn day that melts the snow off the sidewalks in town and the kids from the village abandon • their boots for sneakers and joggers.. Naturally, not wan- ting to be unfashionable, our country -living children want to throw away their boots for the season too. Our lane at Muddy Lane Manor, hOwever, still resembled a water- fowl refuge area, without the waterfowl. Just try to tell kids that they have to wear winter boots when "everybody else . wears shoes". I guess God is just paying me back for all the years I gave the same headaches to my mother. As adults, we're not much better. Give one warm day and you'll see people throwing off their coats, hats, mitts and any other winter apparel and parading around the street in short sleeved shirts and blouses like it was the middle of July. Of course come the mid- dle of July,"if the temperature got within 10 degrees of this "warm" weather now, peo- ple would feel like breaking out the winter clothes again. Weather, despite all the time we spend studying it and watching people draw com- 'plicated maps on television to predict what's going to happen tomorrow is mostly m our head. A 10 oegree sunny. uay in early April is wonderful. A 10 degree sunny day in early June is a tragedy. A snowy day before Christmas is magical. A snowy day in February is enough to send us calling the travel agent about trips to the sunny south. A Snowy day in March is enough to have us. make firth bookings. A snowy day in April and we're ready to walk south if we have to just to get out of here. Yet in the middle of a three day blizzard you can see people looking •happier than ever, being friendly to neighbours they hardly ever speak -too, -cheerfully pushing cars out of snow drifts and offering accom- modation to complete strangers caught in the storm. Humanity is probably never more humane than in the middle ofa snowstorm. And when summer finally arrives, many of the same people who have been Complain- ing loudest about the cold will turn around and complain about the heat. But for now, it's spring and we enjoy the pleasure of the growing strength of the sun. People ride around with the top down on their car, gladly absorbing wind-chill fac- tors that would have had them putting on long underwear three weeks ago. Shorts come out of the back of the drawer and we try to ignore the gooseburnps on the legs they show off. Bicycles come out on the streets again, even if the bare hands that steer them are nearly frozen to the handlebars. Only in Canada, you say? Probably just as well. Over confident lottery player • In Denver a government tax expert received a call from a woman Oho asked,"How much tax is due on $75,000 income? ' About $41,180, not counting deductions, she was told. "Well what about $150,000?" she asked. The bill jumped to $101,980. "Thanks for your help," said the caller."I'm just decktlig Whether to buy one or two tickets on the Irish Sweepstakes. Sound of music agar and Spice by Shelley McPhee Switch jobs week I'm not much of a one for special weeks.. It's not that I don't approve Wholeheartedly, of National Cat Week or National Sauerkraut Week. Though I'd just as soon tickle a snake's belly, I'll sdratch a cat's ear if I have to, and I'll choke down a forkful of sauerkraut, though I'd enjoy a mouthful of mouldy moss equally well. It's just that 1 don't become aware of them until they're all over. By the time I realize it's National Fireworks Week, and have written a hot editorial about- it,, we're right into National Fire Prevention Week, and there I am, telling everybody to run around - with a match in his hand, sending pff rockets. ' ' All this preamble, as any idiot child could guess with one head tied behind his back, is merely a crafty way of leading up to my nomination for a special week. I'm fed up with everybody being fed up with his job, and wishing he, or she, could do something else, that looks twice as rosy, For example, a -butcher wants to be a surgeon because he believes he was cut out to cut up, there's more money in it, and anyhow, it's easier. A dentist thinks he'd make a dandy politician, but he..hasn't got the pall. A street cleaner wants to join the air force, because he knows how to pilot. If you are now whimpering for mercy, I'll tell you about National Switch Jobs Week, Here's how it works. Once a year, for a full week, each of us has a chance to tackle that job we know we should' be doing if an evil fate hadn't tossed us into our present rut. It might be a mite confusing, but look at the fun we'll have. Best time to have this special week would be right about now, when everybody is completely browned off By Bill Smiley with whiter. Say you're a hydro linesman, and you think teachers have it so Much better. Nice warm classroom, When you're out in a pierc- ingwind. Snug in bed at night, when you're called out to fumble with a btoken line after the sleet storm. Hours nine to four, and two Months' holidays. Well, all you do is take over' a classroom during National Switch Jobs Week. There'll be no trouble getting a classroom, because all the teachers will have switched jobs with truck drivers, because the latter make more money, ac- cording to the teachers. • . And there'll be not shortage of truck driv- ing jobs, because all the truck drivers will be working in factories, as they're sick of being away from home so much. 'And • there'll be no lack of factory jobs, as all the ordinary hands will be moving up. into the executive offices', where the work is so much easier and the money so Much better. Naturally, there'll be a lot of executive vacancies, because all the bosses are sick of the tension and responsibility and all they want to do is have a little farm of their own, where they can get back to the simple life, sleep nights without sedatives; and conquer • their ulcers. Farms? There'll be lots of them. The • farmers will all be taking over stores, so they can 'sit around on their fat butts all clay like the merchants, and watch the bank balance grow. The stores will all be available, of course, because' all the mer- chants will be away sailing on the Great Lakes' where the REAL easy money is. See how simple it is? It works for women, too. All the housewives would become models, all the models actresses, and all the aIeidgscOp actresses would be able to revert to being the simple little housewives they are at heart, with $80. aprons tied becomingly over their bullfighter's pants. Personally, I'm going to put M for a preacher's job during the grand switch. Work one day and spend the rest of the week drinking tea and shooting the breeze with jolly old ladies who are only too glad to help you run the church. You can't beat that for an easy living. . Well, how does it strike you? Myself, I think it's the greatest idea since psychiatry was invented. One week's dose of the other fellow's job, once a year, would sweep away all the envy, malice and boredom that af- flicts the human race. I can. just see them at the end of their week. - The hydro linesman would be scrambling frantically' up the highest pole he could find. The teacher would be ready to adopt that lippy teenager he couldn't abide. The truck driver would be hurtling down the highway with a song in his heart 4nd his, foot hard down on the gas pedal. The factory, hand would be crooning over his lathe. The executive woiild be tossing down his tranquilizer pills hilariously. The farmer would kiss the first cow he saw when he got home. The merchant would hum a merry tune as he gaily punched out the ac- companiment on the cash register. Friend housewife would be so glad to get out of that girdle she had to don as a model, she'd sail in and redecorate the whole house. And yours truly would be just as overjoyed to get out of that dog -dollar, and be able to swear, look over the dames, and have a beer again. Good morning! It's shortly after 8 a.m. and we're on the last leg of this week's paper. • For me that means .completing this column. There's nothing outstanding in that fact, but what makes -Mit -Mt= unique' ig that it's being written by "the dawn's early light:" I'm no early bird, and generally 8 a.m. is early for me, but there's something about those 'morning rays of spring sunlight, the robins singing and the greening grass that makeime rise and shine. Normally, if I had my • own way I'd probably sleep in until about 9:30 each morning, slowly awakening to a quiet cup of • coffee, the newspaper and a big bacon and egg breakfast, served on the front verandah. In reality I never wake up for televisions's 7 a.m. 20 Minute Workout, although I always promise myself I will. 1 always try to sneak another 10 -minutes of shut eye after .the alarm has -gone. There's always a mad dash for the bathroom and only time for a quick glass of juice for breakfast. The peace and quiet, morning solitude and relaxation that I long for each day always eludes me. Instead I'm faced with a.m. bathroom battles and a husband who likes to blast tunes out On his stereo at 8:05 a.m. So you see this morning is actually a real accomplishment for me. I awoke when the alarm rang, I was glad to see the day and here I am shortly after the eighth hour feeling perky and energetic Good timitning! + + +• By Shelley McPhee Mornings, •days and nights for Barb Holland are bound to • be exciting. Barb recently left her Clinton home to take up an • exciting career change, as hair stylist on The Love Boat. -- -Barb-is the first .Canadian to .vvo on e Love Boat and her journeys are taking her around the Caribbean on the glamorous cruise ship. Barb will be home at Christmas so hopefully she'll talk to use about her intriguing adventure. + + +• Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cooper of Clinton recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Family visitors were John and Linda Cooper and Carrie of Essex, Joan and Don Laframboise and family.. of London, Lois and Brian Hopper and Peggy and Gerald Toonk, all of Palmerston and Brian Cooper of Listowel. + ++ Don't forget that this Friday night Clinton's Wesley Willis Church will put on' their Variety Night Show. The evening's entertainment will feature the talents of the Junior choir and the popular London magician, John Parker. + ++ This week congratulations go out to Alice Munro of Clinton. You may have heard her name mentioned on Monday night's Academy Awards show. A CBC film, Boys and GirLs, based on one of Alice's short stories was an Oscar winner in the live short action films category, • _ _ _ + ++ James From of Clinton was recently !love your say pumusimpii.01.11.111.117111 Pur Editor outicinors are. yes men". Dear Editor: Msa.fax7payer in the village.. Of OnYneld would like to comment on the aril* in The Bayfield Bugle, .(April 4, 1984) entitled, "Committee of adjustment, rules in /v1ePhee's favor." The first paragraph tells how surprised council was when the committee of adjustment ruled against them. This is because this council prefers to have all its committees made up of "yes men." Three cheers for the committee of adjustment for not being intimiated by council, Also the fact that the clerk treasurer felt the decision was a, "slap in the ear to the administration," really should be taken as a warning. It might mean that in the next election we should give them the boot. From the start of the present council's term in office 46: have been- .subjeeted to the results of their ego trips, whereby they.show as who is boss, no matter what the costs. • prat e--eitioritile was the replacement of our former arena manager, who was at that time and is still not, a "yes man." Concerned citizen, Bayfield. resolution time Dear Editor, Your readers might be interested in an idea that would make Easter '84 a real land- mark in their lives. We all know about New Year's resolu- tions. I'm suggesting that we make Easter resolutions. Because Easter speaks to us of renewed life and a second chance, it just seems that this is an excellent time to take stock of ourselves and possibly set a new course for our lives. In our mind's eye when we visit empty -tomb -arid come away -ceitain-of-- a life beyond this one, then we are released from self -concern and free to make unselfish, life-giving 'resolutions ... resolu- tions that will change other people's lives. May I suggest that your readers consider the plight of the destitute blind in the developing world. These helplesS ones are forced to live out their lives in darkness and under the most deplorable conditions because they simply can't afford the $25 that it costs for a sight restoring, cataract opera- tion. If any of your readers would like to make an Easter resolution to restore someone's life by restoring their sight, then I suggest that they make a tax deductible donation to Operation Eyesight Universal, P.O. Box 123, Calgary, Alberta, 'r2P 2116. Operation Eyesight is a small Canadian charity, started 20 years ago when Dr Ben Gullison, a medical missionary to India was moved by the plight of the destitute, curable blind. Dr. Ben inspired a Small group of Canadian businessmen to form an organiza- tion that would give sight and 'new life to these helpless ones. I can speak with enthusiasm about Opera- tion Eyesight because I'm a Registered Nurse who has visited many of their pro- • jects in India. I was literally overwhelmed by how much good this organization does and today I still wonder at the dedication of the Indian medical staff as they perform surgery and do their follow-up work under some of the most difficult conditions that you could imagine. • If any of your readers do make a resolu- tion to give Someone their sight as a way of celebrating Easter, they would be in- terested in knowing that. this $25, as well as covering • surgical costs, also pays ' for medicine, injections, hospital care, food, follow-up examination and glasses. 1 never realizedthat a few dollars could do so much good, work so hard and go so far. Sincerely, • Lois Horan, Vancouver. presented with the Broker of the Year Award at the quarterly meeting of the North American Life Assurance Company. This award is granted on the basis of .several factors, some of which are outstanding service to policy holders and current production in thelield of estate planning. Bicycling can be hazardous No examination is required for a cyclist. to ride in traffic, while motorists must be tested on traffic laws, signs and signals, as well as their capability to apply these practically, before being allowed on the road, points out the Industrial Accident Prevention Association. IAPA says that most of the 170 Cana- dians killed in bicycle accidents each year are in Ontario. The IAPA suggests that bicyclists avoid these pitfalls: • Darting out onto the roadway from driveways, between cars, or, between in- tersecting streets. • Turning across the flow of through traf- fic. • Riding at left, against the flow of traf- fic. • Roadside doors opening suddenly mom a stoppeo or parked vehicle. • Riding at night or in the ram. • If two or more cyclists, riding side -by- . side. Edith Cavell school reunion Dear Editor, By popular demand, a reunion marking the 65th anniversary of Edith Cavell Public School in Windsor, Ontario, is being arrang- ed for May 18, 19 and 20 - the Victoria Day weekend - at the school named for the heroic 'British nurse shot by the Germans in the First World War. The first-ever reunion held five years ago attracted 1,700 former students, former staff -members and others from eight pro- vinces and eight states, with the help of the media. The participants' cheers and tears prompted many to ask for another reunion soon afterwards - and here it is! The school, in the former town of River- side annexed by Windsor in 1966, also hous- ed Riverside Continuation School and the original Riverside High School on the first floor. Former students and staff members of all three schools are being sought across Canada and the U.S. and the organizing committee would appreciate your help in making contact with them. A sentimental highlight will be a Saturday night dance in the Edith Cavell gymnasium featuring the orchestra of Bill Richardson, who played there for dances as far back as the 1930s. He still has zip. Application forms with details of the weekend's activities may be obtained by writing to: Registration Committee, 85th Anniversary Reunion, Edith Cavell Public School, 5955 Ontario Street, -Windsor, On- tario MIS 1W6. Yours very truly, Jim cornett, General Chairman.