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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-09-14, Page 20J 1f davsyke Inside: Weddings - IODE Jack Riddell Co -Op Camp Marriage help Captain Comet Plow match It will never be the same: - The Toronto Argonauts football club, a team that went to great lengths to prove that losing could be most difficult at times fired their head coach, Leo Cahill, for the second time. And- the incident really shouldn't pass without a few eulogistic paragraphs. Afterall, the Argos, as those with gridiron savvy refer to them, and Cahill were the ordinary man's type of football team. To coin a professional sport -idiom, the Argos could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, with great regularity and uncanny ineptitude: They were a loser's loser. Now any guywho gets sand kicked in his face, walks into lamp posts while eyeing a nubile young lady across the street, or backs into a police cruiser was the type of person who could sympathize with the plight of. the Toronto,Argos and coach Cahill. For over 20 years the Argos turned a wealth of talented. football flesh into fumbling idiots on the football field with an unrivalled penchant for losing at any cost and under any cir- cumstances. Oh there were moments' when Cahill and his crew had football fans ner- vously biting their nails and on the edge of their seats right up until the final play of the game and in a winning situation. And just when astute football fans believed the Argos had run out of ways to lose a game they reached to the depth of their ineptitude and managed to relieve themselves of the thrill of victory. It wouldn't be the same if they were winners. Page 2A Page 3A Page 4A Page 12A Page 8A Page 6A Page 13A t.he.•.erich With all due respect, the Argos erl their coaching staff should be` ee mended on their ingenious talent' proving that losing could not only consistently difficult but a marketable product with widespread appeal. Now just for interest's sake, what type of a job does a Leo Cahill look for now that his football duties are over? He has proved that despite the best talent money could- buy he couldn't inspire a flock of burly football folk through a line of cackling ladies at a department store clearance table. So what type of work does a loser like Cahill go into? Being an ex -Argo coach really isn't such an ominous tag to be wearing these days since the Argos are probably paying more men not to coach their football team than there are coaching it right now. Anyway Cahill's career options"must be limited. Would you buy a used car from a guy ' who Pleaded that despite the 100,000 miles on the odomoter the car was only driven to the drive-in by a teenager, who sparingly used the front seat. Considering that Cahill had a group of overpaid men who consistently ptoved to be under -achievers, could he seek gainful employment as the civil service employment personnel director? He is just a loser who would get a job with the post office the day before they went on strike. But if he is gone for good., a ,myriad of Argonaut tradition has gone with horn. I think Harold Ballard could use him in Hamilton. IGNAL STA 131 YEAR -37 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1978 SECOND SECTION Joan Coulter, 19 -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Coulter of Goderich, has a scrapbook full of memories after spending three weeks in Austria this summer as part of the Lions Club International.. Youth Exchange. Joan has now entered her.second year at the University of Waterloo, majoring in math with a minor in French. She is corresponding in French with a girl she met on her trip. (Photo by Joanne Walters) dream come true BY JOANNE WALTERS Ever since Joan Coulter, 19 -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Coulter of Goderich saw the movie classic, The Sound of Music, she dreamed of some day visiting the Alps. Well, this summer, Joan had her dream come true. Thtough, the ions_.. Inte=rnational_ Youth Exchange, she was able to spend three weeks in Austria, very close, in fact, to where The Sound of Music was filmed. Joan was one of the lucky ones chosen, along with a girl from Brussels and a girl from Orangeville to represent Canada at 'a Lions International Youth Camp at Matrei, just south of Innsbruck, Austria from July 10 to July 22. There were 35 in all at the camp from points in Europe, Asia and North America. The camp wasn't like the . kind- -of--_camp -._wee know, says Joan. It was more like a resort hotel situated right on the side of a snow capped mountain. "It was like right out of a story book," says Joan. "You'd wake up in the morning to the sound of cowbells as the cattle climbed to the high pastures in themountains and you could see the mquntains and their clouded tops right from your window." SPOKE MANY LANGUAGES Joan shared- a room with a French girl and got lots of practice 'speaking the .language. She is minoring in French at the University of Waterloo:-" Most of the kids at the camp could speak at least two languages, including "flawless English" and some even spoke three and four. languages, says Joan. She says that she and her two Canadian companions felt very dull in only being able to speak one language fluently. Joan knew some Frrench and Spanish from high school which she used a lot at the camp. She. also tried to learn some German before she left, and through necessity, she Yearned quite a bit more while living in Austria where it is the native tongue. Before leaving for Austria, Joan received a letter from the camp written in German. She had to take it to the high school so that French teacher, Mr. Herrington could translate it for her. She got another letter from the camp, two days after she left Goderich telling her what to bring. Joan also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Tafeit df Goderich before she left. Mr. Tafeit is a member of the Goderich Lions Club and he and his wife were born in Austria and lived there for some time. Joan was able to get important information from them and pick up lots of tips on sight- seeing., etc. Also, before leaving for Austria, Joan obtained pins for swapping from the Goderich Lions Club, Jack Riddell and Bob McKinley. Some of the kids who attended the camp forgot to bring anything for swapping and were quite upset. So they swapped everything from money, to post cards and airlinetickets, many of which Joan has in a collection now. Joan flew to Austria from Toronto airport on July 9. She arrived at the camp on July 10 after staying there until July 22, she spent a final week with an Austrian Lions Club member and his family. At the same time, -this "ramiIy's"T8'-year-old son visited Goderich, attended a Lions Inter- national Youth Carhp at St. Marys and stayed with a family in Kit- chener. Joan had no trouble communicating with her. "family", the Baldts, as they spoke English quite well. Most Europeans speak three languages she says. The Lions Club members in Austria are mostly upper class. Mr. Baldt is an engineer and the family lives in Sooss, 30 kilometers out of Vienna •in the foothills of the Alps. The population of Soos is 900. GLEAN AND WELL -KEPT Joan says she was fascinated with the history of Atk'stria, especially living so close to such an old city as Vienna. Around here, she says, 100 years is con- sidered old but in Austria everything is much older. All the houses are built of beautiful white stucco with paintings, usually of a religious nature, decorating their sides. Each house has a garden and window boxes with lots of -plants. They are very clean and well -kept and there is no litter at all, says Joan. Even the farmers in the area, who were said to be poor, had huge and immaculate houses. The barns were connected tothe houses and they were also im- maculate, even having curtains on their win- dows. Many of the farm homes, located in the foothills and mountains, had an extra room for ski - guests. This --provided some added income- for them. Farmers in Austria need an extra income explains Joan. Since many of the farms are located on the sides of mountains, the fields are often rocky and the crops must be, planted on a slope so the yields are not always good. ' TOURISM BIG There are a lot of very large industries in the cities and Joan guesses that the Austrian economy is • about the same as ours Tourism is one of thebiggeStin- dustries with most tourists visiting the ski resorts in the mountains. A lot of the. Austrian products are the same as Switzerland's. Austrians produce lumber, chocolate and cheese. They also produce hand - blown glass, and are famous for winemaking. Each farmer makes his own wine, completely Without chemicals, ex- plains Joan and it is considered the best wine next to French wine. On her last day in Austria, the Baldts took Joan to the home of a winemaker who is also a member of the Lions Club there and Joan learned many of the finer details about the art of making wine. WEATHER AND GEOGRAPHY SIMILAR The population •, of Austria is seven million and Joan terms all of the people she met there as being "very friendly" and much the same as Canadians. Being on the same latitude as Canada, Joan found that the weather_ _is _. _ab.out. the__ same in Austria also although a bit cooler in.. the mountains. The geography too is similar although on a much more compact scale. She described a variety of landscapes with the Hungarian plain to the east and the mountains to the west. Austria borders on communist countries but remains neutral. Joan describes the area round Vienna as flat plain with a lot of grains similar to the Canadian prairies. She describes the area where she stayed as "the break between the Alps and the plains." CLASSICAL MUSIC Being a lover of classical. music, Joan was really impressed with the city of Vienna which she calls "the home of classical music". Joan saw Beethoven's home and went to several concerts, including outdoor band • concerts. She herself plays the French horn and the piano. She found that people in Austria are much more knowledgeable than Canadians about cultural things such as painting, sculpture, music, and architecture. This ' is Turn to page 10A • osionommimplimatimmommarimmommemor Take a number please. 'I think I'm going to :have to streamline activities in the old bathroom in the morning or the Camp David peace talks are.,going to be small potatoes compared to the heated. discussions in the john on work days: The problem is too many people and not enough facilities, the right kind of facilities mind you. The big problem is sinks and mirrors. You've got to un- derstand that 1 live with three women, my wife and two' daughters. My daughters shouldn't fit into the problem as, far as I'm concerned because one is five and the other just coming two. But incredibly they do. I honestly think that when women give birth to daughters they should give birth, in delivery rooms decorated like bathrooms. After all, that's where women spend most of their time ,and every effort should be made to have baby girls made comfortable when they arrive in this world'. Let's set the stage. The alarm blows you out of bed early and I/mean early. One of the main reasons for setting it for dawn is to allow enough time to transform female bodies into sights that the world will be satisfied with. Every woman everywhere stands in front of the mirror, doctoring her face, curling her hair, straightening wrinkles in her blouse and making sure there is not a speck of dust, lint or any other foreign material anywhere on her clothing and this takes time. The time is spent in the washroom. The time is almost sacred and should riot be. interrupted by anything so mundane as washing your face. I mean it's not as if I want to take over the can for several hours all I want to do is shake offthe night's sleep. Splash a little water on the face, run a brush through the hair and over' the teeth and spray a little scent killer' under the arms. Ten minutes tops. You've got to be joking. I stand behind the wife while she curl's her hair listening to my oldest daughter argue ••, with her mother about what she's going to wear to school, kindergarten mind you. I can imagine what it's going to be like when the two of them are getting dressed for school considering what some boy is going to think of them. I always argued that the wife can use any mirror in the house, and there are several others, to curl her hair but the argument is in vain. It has to be done in the washroom and that's it. Not even bothering to suggest that the curling iron be takensomewhere else I wait for her to turn to my daughter to stress a point about what she should wear and I dart to the sink to try to grab some water. If I can get water I can handle the rest looking over the wife's 'sh-Otilder. Figuring on helping out I dress the kids. Mistake number two. It seems I have no taste. I get them ready and figure they look good but find out that pink --wand blue don't match and their socks don't go with their eyes. I now just ask them to get their clothes and oversee the operation to make sure no time is wasted. I feel life an outsider. I don't really want to get involved in. the daily discussions and decisions about what should be worn by whom and yet I'm supposed, to help out to make sure everyone gets out on time. I guess .I'll try a little planning. Sit down after supper and establish who's ,going to wear what and get it all reedy for the morning. Schedule people In and out of the washroom and make sure everyone is on time. I have this nagging feeling however, that when I mention the subject I'm going to be in trouble. When the wife reads this she just may have some comments 'she'd like to make. I'll ask her in the morning. jefF Seddon P