The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-10-26, Page 30M • i
Repeating vows after 25 years of marriage is becoming
quite popular.
A picture in the news recently had 25 couples repeating
their vows, all of them married for 25 years. It must have
been impressive. Bu't:where"did the photographer ever find
25 cbuules married 25 years?
As divorce rates climb, the gamble of marriage gives
longer odds every year.
I`azn,of the opinion that simply repeating the marriage
vows #s.not enough to. keep couples coming back for another
25 years. What those services should do is include a few sug-
gesticins to keep things running smoothly for another 2 1 2
decades.
The service should include a clause whereby one partner
promises always to take out the garbage. Another clause
should make final and uhbreakple arrangements about who
packs the lunch for the net 15 -years: And the person whb
does the shopping should agree to buy material out of which
lunches are made.
There is nothing more distressing to me. sometimes a
lunch -maker, to go to the refrigerator and find nothing to
make a lunch out of.
Those renewal vows should also say that a husband does
not have to shiver with passion anymore when his wife
scratches that spot between his shoulder blades that he can-
not reach. And the wife should not have to greet him at the
door every day in a see-through gown with a blue ribbon in
her flair and a martini in her hand for him.
We are both night people and I should not expect her to
apologize when she steps on my feet,at 6 a.m. while I am
tripping over the bags under my eyes.
I should not expect her to apologize when she mistakenly
pours me a bowl of cheese croutons instead of puffed wheat.
Letters are apprec atea by Bob Trotter E.IaaleRdE,rnaa Ont N3B 2C 7
Some clauses should be included for children, too, so they
will be told that these two turkeys standing in front of the
minister are really two individuals who have laughed and,
cried and strained and struggled for 25 years to give the kids
a decent home.
Children, it seems to me, find it difficult to believe that
two people who have lived together for 25 years can still -be
in love. Maybe they want to get away on a second honey-
moon now and again.
I can truthfully and earnestly say that marriage is the
greatest of institutions. Why many young people spurn the
idea is something I find difficult to accept. Common-law ar-
rangements seem too easy to break and too easy to start.
"That piece of paper" — the marriage licence — was im-
portant to me when it was issued. It cannot keep people
together but it is the written proof of a commitment that is
not lightly taken.
Marriage is a wonderful learning opportunity whereby the
independence is equal, the dependence is mutual. Lord
Byron said polygamy may well be. held in dread, not only as
a sin, but as a bore. My marriage has never been boring. It
is as exciting — even more exciting today — than it was
when.I was young and stupid and searching for true love.
Goethe said that the sum which two married people owe
to one another defies calculation. It is, he said, an infinite
debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
The idea makes sense to me. If I have another life to live,
I hope 1 can meet the`same person who has shared this one
with me so richly. She has made of this marriage something
so precious that it is Ineffable.
I'd like to meet her again next time and maybe pay my
debt by giving her happiness and contentment.
She is all my dreams come true. all my fantasies fulfilled.
Trail Riders hold final show
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GQDERICH SIGNAL -STAR; THURSDAY, OCTQRER 26; i970 . AqE UA
Thirteen -month-old Danny Morganof Clinton seems to be conveying a
"Happy Halloween" message from atop this winking pumpkin: The pum-
pkin was part of a display set up by Reg and Helen Riehl and family outside
Saltford Valley Hall last week for Colborne Township's 13th annual
Christmas Country Fair. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
List winners in 14 various classes
Th. ,kIluo _Tratl;,Riders.-
beld-'th in thitd and final
club Sunday, October 15.
The° day was cold but
'sunny and there was a
good turnout. Judge for
the day was Mr. Ervin
Gerra, of Fullerton.
The winning ticket was
drawn for $100 grocery
voucher from A & P in
Goderich. The winner
was K.E. Smith of
London.
The winners of the
events of the day were:
junior showmanship:
Patti Muegge, Sheba;
Janet Lockhart, Babes
Big Mike; Martha
Straughan, Patches;
Elaine Coombs, Kelly.
Tyke showmanship:
Lynn Huff, Miss Painted
Jay Bars; Jennifer
Johns, Copper.
Senior halter: Gord
Johns, Brandts Joe; Cleo
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Plant closes
Thirteen Seaforth
residents lost their jobs
October 14, when they
were told the L.H. Gray
and Son egg -grading
plant was closing im-
mediately. The workers
were called to the plant
for the news by William
Gray of Ridgetown, who
operates the firm.
Gray said that the
closing is part of an
"industry .trend"
resulting from reduced
egg quotas. He said at
least 10 major grading
stations in Ontario have
closed in the past two
years.
The approximately 35
major egg producers in
Huron and Middlesex
counties that have been
served by the Seaforth
plant, he said, "will still
have a market with us."
The firm continues to
operate egg -grading
plants in . Ridgetown,
Strathroy and
Moorefield. '
. The Seaforth plant
handled 75,000 to 100,000
dozen eggs a week and
had a yearly payroll of
about $170,000. The Gray
firm bought the plant
about a year ago from
Turn to page 12A •
"was one of .the first hybrids out of the .round"
—Allan Stapleton, Kerwood
T833is the new single -cross corn
available for the first time in 1978.
Widely adaptable, its ideally suited to the
2650-2800 CHU maturity areas.
"I've been growing Trojan
com, for four years now," said Mr.
, Sfapjetan.' "If they keep bringing
out new hybrids like T833, I'm
sure I'll be growing Trojan for another four!
"T8.33 withstood the drought exceptionally
well," he said. "It maintained colour all year and
certainly appears to have a very strong stalk,
"It's dabbed up well and
they ield looks good. We'll know
tut how good when we har 'esi;"
he said. ,
'Check this newspaper for the results
when Trojan's spatiall Test' plots aretzeili
harvested In this area. The plots are on
the,.farlins of Donald Bean, Goderich,
and Dan Kerr. Listowel.
Senior, jrrels _Gypsy
Mist, Nor `IS,traughan;
Apache Twister, Wayne
Straughan; Fritz, Noreen
Straughan.
Tyke walk and jog:
Lynn guff, Miss Painted
Jay ars; Jennifer
Johns, Copper.
Senior poles: Apache
twister, Wayne
Straughan; Fritz, Noreen
Straughan; Gypsy Mist,
Noreen Straughan.
Senior flag race:
Apache Twister, Wayne
Straughan, Fr,,,itz, Wayne
Straughan.
Junior equitation: Patti
Muegge, Sheba; Janet
Lockhart, Babes Big
Mike; ., Elaine , Coombs,
Kelly.
Western riding: Fritz,
Noreen Straughan; Wee
Willie Sunspot, Sue Boak;
Misty,' Wendy McPhee;
ApacheTwister, Wayne
Straughan.
Open English pleasure:
Jennifer Johns, Copper;
Wendy McPhee, Misty;
Patti-Muegge, Sheba.
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