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It was a perfect weekend for the nearly 3,000 people who flocked to -
Festival and Friends the seventh annual Music Festival sponsored by the Goderich and
District Optimist Club at Riverside Park. In the photo at right, a
local band called Tadpoles in a Jar performs a song with band.'
Seventh. annu,
Music Festiva.
Over 3,000 people flock td.:
folk festival at Optimist Park
BY MIKE FERGUSON
About 3500 people attended the seventh
annual Music Festival sponsored by the
Goderich and District Optimist , Club' over
three days on the holiday weekend. This "
year's festival -goers were treated to a wide
variety of music by some fine entertainers.
Eleven- hands played for addiences Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday. ,Listenersof all
ages enjoyed the opportunity to sit back and
relax, dance to the music, or soak up some
sun.
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Rick McGhie, Richard knechtel,
Goderich's own Nads, T.W. and ' the All-
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Night Sensations, Bruce -County -Grass, the -
Good Brothers, Mark Rust,. Bob Burchill,
Wild and Blue,. and B.W. Pawley and the
Coyote Band. each took the stage for their
sets during the festival and kept audiences
clapping or singing along.
Children were treated to MarveLthe Magi-
cian and a puppet show on Saturday
afternoon.
Signe Clark of the Optimists says he
especially wants to thank' all the volunteers
who helped out. •
"We couldn't have done it without them,"
he says, noting • in particular the Goderich
Ringette Association:
members Arletta Martin, Bobby Richards on bass, and Jim King
on drums. Jim O'Neill is the lead singer of the Goderich musical
group. 'Over 14 bands performed for the crowds during the three
day event held last week. (photo by Mike Ferguson). ,
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POSTSCRIPT
By Susan Hundertmark.
Everybody's
an expert
about diets
Have you ever noticed how most people
are very aware, if not concerned, about
what kind of food you put in your mouth'
After recently committing myself to a
diet, I've been made aware that while I
watch what I eat, the rest of the table has
been watching too. And, judging. And,
commenting. And, advising. And, shak-
ing their heads in superiority.
People who would never think of men-
tioning a word while my main .diet was
pop, chips and chocolate bars have gain-
ed a sudden interest now that the menu
consists more of lettuce, tomatoes and
carrots. In fact, merely mentioning that
you are trying to eat healthier is taken by
some people as a direct„ challenge.
I know that food and diet are emotion -
packed words, especially to women.
Since I was 10 years old, my mother has
been ominously warning me to watch.
what I eat. But, health wasn't her main ,
concern when she suggested I watch my
diet. She was more interested in my
achievement of a slender and attractive
feminine figure.
So for years, like many otiier'vomen I
know, I've been dieting off and on all for
the sake of the elusive yet perfect female
body, which I was sure was out there
somewhere if I could only deny myself
long enough.
And although I've always been
healthy, like many other women, I grew
to hate my body for no good reason.
Though I've never looked a perfect 10
like Bo Derek, I've never looked that bad
either. In fact, at times, I've looked pret-
ty good.
In the past couple of years, I've been
trying to.come to grips with my negative
feelings about food and, self-image. I've
read "Fat is a Feminist Issue" and I
agree that dieting is a particular part of
being female in our self -hating, often
woman -hating culture.
.1 cringe, when young women' -I know,
who could already pass for Twiggy look -
a -likes, tell me they're dieting because
they're too fat. And, I sympathize when
women who have an extra few pounds
tell me they hate themselves and their
bodies because they don't look 'like high
fashion models:
But, I've grown determined . to ap-
preciate my body, whether it fits the
fashion or not and my recent diet is not
an exercise in self -hatred. My goal is not
to mold my body into a size 6 bikini. It's
much more boring than that. '
AIII want to do is be healthyand people -
have given me some strange looks when I
express that goal.
It seems that 'people can relate a lot . .
easier to self -hatred than self-love. They
think I'm strange when I explain that I'm
dieting as a preventative h althmeasure
rather than as a way too ow a society -
dictated definition of beauty. '
Some :people are quite .threatened by
my diet. Skipping the salad dressing and
the synthetic bacon bits and opting in-
stead for bare, raiv vegetables while din-
ing at a restaurant, I've had dining part-
ners gasp, "I could never'go that far on a
diet!" And, I've wanted to answer, "No
one asked you to!"
I suppose that in our junk food world, a
person with enough resolve to remain on
ahealthY
diet
et
makes
kes
ot
h
e
r
people
un
-
comfortableand little guilty
especially considering the -emotion-
ladened connotations surrounding
dietiiig'as I've outlined above. Because of
that discomfort, they use all sorts of tac-
tics to sabotage your diet. ,
' There is a group of people I've come to
call the "experts" who have tried just
about every type of diet going and can
regale you with stories upon stories
about their experiences with food. Once
they learn you're on a diet, unasked they
try to identify the diet and waving a copy
of the Canada Food Guide in your face,
they try to convince you why. your diet
will fail.
The experts blend in with the "temp-
ters." Both groups have , tried unsuc-
cessfully to lose weight by dieting and
believe that anyone who doesn't have
weight to is as 'a goal to dieting must be
out of her mind. So, to bring you back to
the real world, they try to stuff cherry
cheesecake down your throat. '
That brings me to the "offended
cooks." They're the people who have
mixed'' so much love and self-esteem iia
with the other ingredients Of their
cookies and pastries that they take it as a
personal attack when a polite "No, thank
you" greets their extended tray of,
goodies.' They have a hard time
understanding that while , you have
nothing against them as people, their
sugar -loaded creations, especially in
large quantities, are bad for your health.
. I've'discovered that there is incredible
peer pressure out there when it comes to
eating. Forget about the pressure to
drink or take .drugs --the pressure to con-
sume a chocolate milkshake involves in,
cense interrogation and ridicule especial-
ly from the indulging party who, wishes
you'd indulge too
I 'must admit I've sucdumbed to the
pressure occasionally. But, I'm still corn
miwt fed t my diet. Aft
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