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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-12, Page 29The Goderich Teen Tones won the Girls' Chorus category at the Kiwanis Music Festival in London on April 4. Last year the Teen Tones received 86 points and placed second behind the Alma College choir of St. Thomas. This year the Teen Tones received 86 points again and placed first with no competition. The adjudicator was James Whicher of Thunder Bay. Teen Tones director, Irla Stewart, says she wishes the choir had more competition. Pictured here, left to right, representing the 26 member choir, are Margie Reynolds, first soprano representative; Elizabeth McMillan, alto representative; and Andrea Jackson, second soprano representative. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Vimy banquet held Wi=ndsor vet is guest speaker BY NEIL SHAW, P.R.O. One hundred and fifty members of Legion. Branch 109 and their guests assembled in the Jubilee room on the evening of Saturday, April 7 to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the battle,of Vimy Ridge.. At this event, the Legion remembers the men of the community who served .in World War 1 and, in particular, those who saw action at Vimy. This year, these honored guests present, were: Comrades Dick Cornish, Clarence MacDonald, George Ingles and Art Laverty who are Vimy veterans and Comrades Jim Adam, William ,Bell, John Benge, Orah Crawford, William Elliot, John Ensign, Charlie Mills, William Taman, Loe Ouellette, Harry Symonds, William Westlake, Archie Wilkins, and Karl (Red) Wilkinson who are World War I veterans. Branch 109 president, Roy Mugford, introduced the- "head table which consisted of Zone treasurer, Harold Chambers, Branch poppy chairman, Howard Carroll, the honorary treasurer of the Ladies' Auxiliary Ontario Command, Comrade Evelyn Carroll, Padre and Mrs. G.L. Royal, Zone Commander -elect, Bill Riehl and Mrs. Riehl, Zone Commander, George Campbell and Mrs. Campbell, Deputy Zone Commander, Robert Chapman and the president of the Ladies' Auxiliary to Branch 109, Anne Sprung. The guest speaker, Comrade Irvin Snyder of Legion Branch-, 143, of Windsor, was introduced by Comrade Harold Chambers. Comrade Snyder served with the Essex Scottish Regiment, and was a prisoner of war from August 1942 until April 1945. Today he is a staff inspector with the Windsor police depart- ment and active in the Legion as assistant vice - treasurer, Ontario Command. The speaker c.om- menced by remarking that today those who remember Vimy Ridge • are becoming fewer and fewer. It is only proper, he said, that the Legion commemorate Vimy as it was doing that night. From 1915, Vimy Ridge becafne a focal point of the Allied Front. It cost the French 15,000 dead and wounded in an un- successful attempt to capture this key location. New techniques were needed to neutralize this enemy stronghold, stated the speaker. When this task was assigned to the Canadian Corps, the lifting ' barrage was adopted, manoeuvres were carried out on ground similar to the Vimy area, detailed photos were studied prior to the advance and a series of tunnels were constructed to protect troops and stores. The four divisions of th'e Canadian Corps were unable to capture the ridge after three days of costly fighting. The real significance of Vimy was that this was the first time that the four Canadian divisions had fought on the same battlefield. They went in as individual units and came out as Canadians, stated Comrade Snyder. This action saw the Canadian Army awarded four Victoria Crosses and their leader, General Currie, knighted on the field. Today, this remarkable feat of valor is marked by a white stone memorial in memory of the 3,600 Canadians who died there so that • Canadians may live in a nation second to none. In his conclusion, Comrade Snyder made a special plea for Canadian unity based on the sacrifice of those Canadians whd shed their ROBERTSON MEMORIAL SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE TUESDAY APRIL 24th. 0:00 a.m. - 3:30 p:m. b 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m, All Senior Citizens are invited to a program and school tour on: WEDNESDAY APRIL 25th 10:30 a.m. >. blood in either World War I or II. Life rnemberships were then presented by the guest speaker to past president-E.C. John- stone, past president -H. Chambers and branch treasurer -Don McArthur. Members of the Branch 109 Vimy committee this year were Comrade Harold Chambers, committee chairman, and Comrades, Ray Former G oderich man dies William Cudmore Sr., formerly of Goderich, died suddenly in Hamilton, Wednesday, March 2]. He was 77. He was the husband of the late Gladys Lemay and dear father of Merle McQuaid, Orr Lake; Joan McMann, Toronto and Lois McClary, Hamilton. He is survived by two sons, William- Cudmore, Jr., Goderich and Kelvin, Mississauga -and two sisters, Mabel McColeman and Elsie Rothery, both of Gravenhurst. He also leaves to mourn nine grandchildren and one great grandson. Mr. Cudmore was predeceased by four brothers. Funeral service and committal was held in the chapel of W.J. Cavil] Funeral Home, Gravenhurst and spring interment is in Mickle Memorial Cemetery, Gravenhurst. Barker and William McCallum and president Roy Mugford. GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1979—PAGE 9A Jesus Folk coming to town Coming to. Goderich on Saturday, April 21 is the musical production en- titled JESUS FOLK. A cast of 60 from the London Citadel Corps of The Salvation Army have been rehearsing long and hard for this, their first performance. This will be the first of three performances in the region of Western Ontario. Oscar Hammerstein II once put it: "It is non- sense to say what a musical should or should not be. It should be anything it wants to be...There is only one absolutely indispensible element that a musical must have. IT MUST HAVE MUSIC." JESUS FOLK has music. Plenty of it. But where it differs from other musicals in that instead of having one continuous story line, a number of separate in- cidents are portrayed which are linked together by what they each add to the central theme. JESUS FOLK deals with a number of the original Jesus Folk -- those that walked with Him on earth, - they tell of the change that Jesus brought to their lives, and these stories are. linked with modern-day situations -- all in song, of course. Though the musical. flows as a continious whole it does, in fact, consist of six separate sequences which can be named after the Biblical character portrayed or hinted at, namely: The Man with the Paralysed Hand, Lazarus, Philip, The Demoniac, Zac- chaeus, and Peter. 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