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(i()I)I R1('I! SIGNAL-S'I'AR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1987 --PAGE IA
Valdy,
Blackwell Sideroad Bluegrass Band
Pawley headline f
The eighth -annual :Music' Festival, spon-
sored'bv the Goderich and District Op-
timist 'C'lub, offers a weekend you'll never
forget.
The festival, July 1st to July 4th, offers
entertainment for all ages including a
children's performance 3 'pin Saturday
which features a magician and a puppet
show. The times are as follows: Wednes-
day from 12 noon until 'r pm, Thursday,
from 5 pm until 1 am, Friday from 5 pm
until 12 am and Saturday from 1 pm until 1
am. 1'he first day of the festival features a
free stage" with Ibcal musicians.
A performer who has been called "a
master at country,' folk, rock and blues,'
• will be making two. appearances at the.,
festival. Valdy, a legend in Canadian
music, will be performing Friday at 9 pm
and 11 pm.
Influences of Valdy include Henry. Man-
cini, Buddy Holly, barrelhouse piano
players, jug bands and (i0's pop. Continu-
ing sources of inspiration are Pat
Metheny, Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, David
P Foster and a host of international singer -
songwriters.
Thursday features Kick McGhie, Back 2
Hack, Cabin Cruisers and Texas Flood.
Rick Mc•(:hre is a popular solo performer
from London, Ontario, that has played at
past Goderich festivals. Rick plays a wide
variety of music ranging from folk to
popular.
Back 2 Back is a two man electronic
band. formerly, from the U.S. and playing
back-up band for C'huc'k Berry, now based
in Kitchener playing music from the 50's
and 80's. Following them are the Cabin
C'r'uisers who feature a program of popular
music under the leadership of the versatile
Richard Krechtel.
-Tribute will be paid to Stevie Ray
Vaughn by -Teras Flood with Blues
guitarist 'Tiro Woodcock combining with
ether Landon area musicians.
stinal
V aldy
usic entertainmen
Pawlev
.Friday's show includes Blackwell
Sideroad, Pulse (`'reek and Wild and Blue.
Blackwell Sideroad is a Sarnia based
bluegrass band who are achieving increas-
ing popularity in their chosen field of
music. Following them are bluegrass band
Pulse Creek, also from Sarnia, who extend
their range to contemporary music done in
the bluegrass style, and features excellent
four-part harmonic's.
Saturday:'s show features Gyproc• Wool.
(grant Ellison, No -Lose Blues Band and the
B.1 tawlcy Road Show.
The No -Lose Blues Band offers great
blues -with ,John '1111 i formerly played with
Janis Joplin's 'Tull Tilt Boogie Band"
and some fine musicians from the Strat-
ford area.
B.W.f'aw'ley, ar performer on the Cana-
dian Country Music Scene, who "tells it
Back t,o
like it is" makes his appearance from 11
pm until l ars. For almost flirty years,
B.W. opened for the illustrious Ronnie
Hawkins' "1lonky 'funk Show." The ex-
posure further paid off by giving hire tour-
ing opportunities with the likes of Johnny
Back
Paycheck. Joe Sun and Dolly Parton.
Admission for the music festival is
Wednesday $1, 'Thur'sday $3 and Friday.
and Saturday $5. C'hildr'en under 12 are ad-
mitted free. All proceeds go to Community
Service,
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Shack elected President of College of Nurses
Director of nursing to head provincial
i)irector of Nursing at Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital Joyce Shack.
who has a background of nursing ex-
perience and related professional ac-
tivities, was elected president of the Col-
lege of Nurses for a one year term with op-
tion for re-election.
She will he representing Southwestern
Ontario including counties of Huron,
Perth, Middlesex, Essex, Kent and Oxford
county with her main duty being chief
spokesman for the College of Nurses.
' She said the College of Nurses is a
statutory body that ensures that' nurses
meet requirements for registration in-
eluding nurses currently in college and
those who have completed the course to en-
sure that the public is receiving the hest
possible care.
The College of Nurses 'nuncil consists of
25 nurses and nurses assistants and eight
lay representatives.
"Our job is to discuss various issues in
the nursing process," she said. adding
council meets every two months while the
executive meets monthly.
Shack has an extensive educational
background. She graduated from Victoria
Hospital School of Nursing, London in 1955
and three years later attended the Univer-
sity df Western Ontario where she received
her diploma in Nursing Education She
i
statutory body
JOYCE O. SHACK
(photo by Colleen Maguire)
also received her Batchelor nt Serener
Degree in Nursing at I `nivcrsitt of
Western Ontario. Master of Science in
Nursing Administration at Boston Univer-
sity' and her certificate in Hospital Ser-
vices Management from the Canadian
Hospital Association.
She has' been employed by different
hospitals in the area with various positions
including General Duty nn Staff Medical
Services at Victorian Hospital, i,ondon.
Head Nurse on Medical, Surgical and
Pediatric Unit at Sydenham District
Hospital in Wallaeeburg and teacher, tem-
porary co-ordinator in x-ray department
and temporary hospital supervisor for
Nursing services at Sarnia General
Flospital. School of Nursing. She has also
worked at. St. .Joseph's Hospital, Sarnia.
Plummer Memorial Public Hospital. Sault
Ste. ;Marie, and currently Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital.
Her professional activities include.
among many others, being a member of
the International Council of Nursing
1(:N i, the Canadian Nurses Association
Cha i and the Registered Nurses Associa-
tion of Ontario BNAO i She vas'elected
repr'ei;rnta sive to the ('allege of Nurses of
r )ntarrn in 19711 and is a member of the Nur-•
sing Advisory Committee at Conestoga
Collette
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Goi g to the
du ai p is a
sacre4 ritual.
Admittedly it doesn't have the sarne
monastic reverence as going to church or
the warns kinship of dinner with the fain':
but going to the dump has for me
become 0 sacred Sunday 'ritual
nonetheless.
When 1 rash that trunk down with a •
bungie turd forcing air pockets of dark
.green plastic to bulge out all around, I'm
buoyed by the idea of Waste .on its way
out of nn life.
Once 00 the road, work gloves on the
wheel I sing all the way up Lakeshore
Road, to the tune of •the -"William Tell
'Overture" - To The Dump, '1'o The I)urnp,
'1'o The Dump. Dump, Dump - and it's
dump .day all ac .doss this great rural
land.
It matters little m hat the people I pass •
are doing: Weeding,' cutting grass or
barbecuing - most of what they're up to
finds its way to where. I'm headed - the
Wainfleet dump.
Upon Augustine Road, secluded by
woods, set down ainid rambling farm
land, Wainfleet may have the classiest
little duanp in Ontario. •
If it were anywhere within 30 smiles of •
Toronto it would be criss-crossed with .
condominiums 'arid bordering on the •
eighteenth hole.of'a golf course. But it's
not. It's in Wainfleet where we Wc.inflee-
trans have the natural luxury to use
prime land as a refuse pit.
"The sign reads: "Wainfleet Residents -
Taixpayers Only - No.Picking! No Burn-
ing: Wainfleet, Refuse Only". It •has a
ring of law and order to it but really', the
rules are not energetically enforced. I've
dome honkie with a five -week-old black
and white kitten, a'six-foot rubber plaint
in perfect condition and two, wing nuts
that three hardware stores couldn't pro-
vide. And nobody has ()veil asked me For a
receipt to prove my taxes have been
paid.
The sign is.more of a precaution What
they're trying to discourage is a barge
loaded with 80,000 tons of rotting Long
Island garbage cruising up the Feeder
('anal and dumping the load on
Wainfleet. You'll remember that barge,
got as far as New Orleans and Cuba' but it
didn't show its stern in Wainfleet. The
sign eons tb be working. -
Another sign at the entrance warns
'people who leave garbage when the gates
are closed or, pick or scavenge (the same
thing really, pickers being .slightly more
selective than your average scavenger)
are subject to charges by the Ministry of
the Environment, They don't really
charge you, they just lock you in for a
long weekend with your hands tied so you`
can't hold you nose.
Once inside there are at least six signs
that simply say: "Garbage" with an ar-
royo. pointing to that days' dump site.
These are important because I imagine a
lot of people could mistake the dumping
areas for an open air food concession or a
fire sale at a•disc'oilnt department store.
• Yet another sign reminds you of paying
your taxes. i wonder if Wainfleet has
struck some sort of advertising trade-off.
I wonder if when you go to an office in 11
& R Block there's a sign in the window
that reminds you to dump your garbage.
Once inside, the dump is dominated by
screaming seagulls. rubber tires, and
enough green plastic garbage bags to
make The Man E'runl (;lad giddy. An
empty microwave oven packing crate
leans up against a rusting four -burner
gas stove in a soiled portrait of
technology. -Porn rugs, 1'ipped gnat-
-tresses, and plastic everything - the
place looks like the wvnr'Id's worst lawn
sale.
i)n the !way out of the dump i always
stop the incoming car or truck and say to
the driver:'
"You might ars well tnreet it All the
good stuff is gone!"
The look on their faces snakes the trip
worthwhile.
"No, no" they usually blurt unit. em-
barrassed, -•We're leaving stuff'"
I like the Wainfleet dump
For one thing it gives me an oppnrtuni-
t.y to visit my columns. . .
And if it's true that we are what we
consume, then the community dump is a
sort of trashy rnusexirn of our im-
mediate past. The dump works perfectly
into our grand scheme of things. We, as
Canadians, bury our waste in dump sites.
our dead in Ottawa
And really, we wouldn't have it any
other way.
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