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Goderichrss Tourists of the Week last week were Bastian and Roely Nederlof
of Hamilton_ They were staying at the Pinery in Grand Bend and exploring
the whole area. Travelling and exploring are Mr. Nederiof's hobbies. He is a
Christian Reformed Church minister. The Nederlofs were taken to dinner at
the Bedford Hata and were then treated to a tour of the townipar't of which
includes a stop at the Huron County Pioneer Museum for complimentary tea
and scores. (Photo by Joanne Walters)
THE GODERICH SIGNAL-S"I'AR, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 19.7& P, ("r)
itnesses from convention
Many families from the
Goderich area were
among 80,008 delegates •
who packed out Mon-
treal's Olympic Park for
the finale of the "Vic-
torious Faith" Inter-
national 'Convention ° of
Jehovah's Witnesses.
Local spokesman, Mr.
Ralph Brodie said
Frederick W. Franz„
President of the Watch
Tower Society, spoke on
the subject: "Jesus
Christ -- Victorious King
With Whom Nations Must
Reckon".
Discussing the "social
environment" in society
today, Franz said things
are in a bad way.
"We might think of the
day of reckoning that is
approaching because of
the decline in good
morals that is taking
place in all lands," he
said.
.Speakin,g of- another -
area of concern, the arms
race, Franz said the
United Nations has of-
fered no inducement for
slowing it down and the
nations rely upon
military preparedness
for safety.
UNTOUCHABLE
RELIGION
"But there is stj,11
another sector of human
affairs that is due for a
The parksu erintendent • • • • • • •
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THE MASTER
PLAN
The master paln,..which
Wendy drew up for Point
Farms,, calls for
redevelopment, much of
which hasn't been carried
out yet because it wil_
require considerable
funding_ Wendy happy
top see however, that some
of the smaller aspects of
the plan are being im-
piemented. These include
an expanded recreation
program, redesign of the
• park o€fice to provide
separate areas for ad
ministratrve work and for
the issuing of park per
nxiits and the redesign of
roads in the park to allow
for future development of
the camp grounds.
• "Larger scale
development will take
--- e•a-whi1er" she says.
Wendy hasn't always
been a planner. She was
born , in Letchworth,
England and majored in
geography at university
in Scotland_ She came to
Canada in I970 and
worked as a high school
teacher for a few years:
Although she enjoyed
teaching- she says, "I
always had this bee in tny
bonnett to get into
planning_ It had always
interested me so I figured
I should get back to
school and Learn about it
while I could."
And that's what she
did_ She enrolled in a two
year graduate course in
resource planning at . the
University of . Waterloo.
When she started the
course, she was mostly
interested in town and
.city planzring,. but once
site got into it more, she
became interested in
parks and rural' planning.
GARDEN CITY
Wendy figures her
interest in planning all
began because of living in
Letc worth, known as the with her. She goes back to The park officially
first garden city in
England. This is a town
which was very
specifically designed so
as not to grow
haphazardly. The people
who live there are mostly
Londoners who were
movedout of their
cramped quarters in the
big city. It was felt that it
would be better
psycholgically for
thesepeople to have space
and gardens for growing
their own plants and
vegetables and such was
another feature of the
town_ There are many
similarly planned places
in England now and they
are known as New Towns.
"There is more
pressure on the land in
England and so they are
forced into rigorous
planning controls moreso
than here. The English
people are quite ac-
cepting of this, not like in
Canada where the people
are used to vast,_ wide-
open- areas and doing
with their property as
they like," says Wendy.
Partly because of
Wendy's growing up in a
well-planned Garden City
and partly because of her
education, in which
planning was stressed a
lot more than it would be
here, she became in-
terested in this line of
work_
LIKES IT
HERE
Wendy had travelled in
Canada a couple of times
during summer vacations
but she decided she would
have to work here for a
year in order to find out
what the country was
really all about.
"My one year extended
to eight," she laughs.
Wendy's home is in
London, Ontario but she
is staying in the Goderich
area this summer while
working here. She even
had to bring her two dogs
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Wendy has also lived in
Clinton. She stayed there
while working out of the
Wingham branch office of
the Ministry of Natural
Resources for one year.
She says she likes the
Huron area and also
remarks that the County
has a good planning
department.
"They are quite ad-
vanced in their approach
to rural area planning,"
she says.
Wendy -works a five day
week of shift -Ivor. -k. -The
main office at the park is
staffed 24 hours a day,
mostly for security
reasons after midnight.
Although it is fairly quiet
at the park during the
week, the weekends are
always busy and usually
the camp grounds are
full. ' However,- „Wendy
estimates that the overall
number of campers is
down this this year as are
the number of visitors
who come to use the
bench. This could
perhaps be duein part to
an increase in camping
fees, she thinks.
closes on September 17
but most of the staff will
remain for about three
weeks • after that
repairing equipment,
reseeding and doing other
odd jobs.
"The majority of work
gets down when the
campers are gone,'' says
Wendy.
There are 15 regular
workers at the park and
four students working
there for the summer
under an Experience '78
program.
When Wendy was first
asked if she wanted to be
the superintendent of
Point Farms Provincial
Park, she said she wasn't
worried about the fact
that she was a woman,
she was more concerned
about whether she could
do a good job or not. So
far, so good. Wendy's
position at Point Farms
can be looked on by ar-
dent women's libbers as
another step forward for
women or it can..be looked
on quite simply as Wendy
would see it; as just
another person doing a
job.
reckoning," Franz said, "
a sector that may seem to
many of us to be an un-
touchable- thing, ' liike.,
something, sacrosanct A .
it is religion!"
Franz said religion has
proved to be the most
divisive force on earth.
"It has .separated
races, nations, peoples;
tribes and even members
of a family," he said.
"Thus it has caused
human disunity. Dif-
ferences of religions have
led to bitter hatreds and
prejudices, sadly to
violent conflicts," he
continued, "to feuds that
have lasted for centuries
down to now."
Pointing to-'rhricten-
dom, Franz said "she bas
been most outstanding in
this respect, Because of
hideous wars her realm
has been stained with
seas of human blood,"
A DAY OF RECKONING
Franz stressed that
Jesus --Christ, as king, is
the one with whom the
nations must reckon.
"When ... on earth ..
he had his enemies. Not
strange, then, that he still
has enemies on earth
since his enthronement
as king in heaven . . .
Today the world has not
turned to loving Jesus
Christ," Franz said.
Stressing that world
government would never
yield their authority toa
kingdom with Jesus
Christ as ruler, Franz
said, "Jesus Christ•has to
put up a real fight for this
cause. The nations will
have to reckon with him
in a violent war."
Concluding, Franz said
that rulers of the world
show no humility before
God.
"They do not yield
peacefully to earth's
Cightful King, Jesus
hrist," he said, "who
showed the greatest
humility before God and
who championed all the
helpless ones on earth...
"Mankind needs to be
Earl Rawson named
Deputy Grand Master
At the Grand Lodge of
Canada for the Province
of Ontario held at the
Royal York in Toronto on
Wednesday, July 19, Earl
Rawson of 205 Blake
Street in Goderich, was
chosen by the 17 Masonic
Lodges of the South
Huron District as District
Maitland Lodge No. 33
Goderich in 1974.
Thirty-four masons
from Goderich, Carlow,
Clinton, Monkton and
Mitchell made up the bus
load who attended Grand
Lodge from this area.
given a new start in
righteousness. Hence the
Warroir King Jesus
Christ must ride in the
cause of righteousness
and fight for the
establishment of a New
Order over all the earth."
highlight of the
convention- was- the
baptism of 831 new
Witnesses at special
services at Montreal's
Olympic pool.
Brodie said the con-
vention has strengthened
the resolve of. the local
witnesses to continue
their house to house
visitation program in this
area.
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