HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-06, Page 12Page 12—The Wingham Advance -Times, Nov. 6, 1985
Guest editorial
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igloos?
Eskimos and
A cousin, of mine went to a
film centre in the U.S. and
saw a film about Canada. It
showed mountains of snow
and a bunctl of Eskimos liv-
ing in igloos. And that was an
example of Canadian life!
That is 'simply not true!
We have four seasons, equal
in length fall, winter, spring
and summer.
In the fall we get out our
jackets and sweaters as the'
colder breezes begin to blow
The leaves turn beautiful
reds and oranges and fall to
the ground in graceful
swirls. School starts again
and adults settle down to
work. Everything is hum-
ming. The air is so full of
electricity, it could light up
an entire city if harn sed.
All the new shows are on the
Art Club
The Art Club has many
projects planned. This year
it is making signs for football
games. 1't is also making
murals for some of the
rooms. When the new win-
dows were'put in there was a
lot of wall space left to fill. It
will also do the ads in the
back of the yearbook.
Plans for the future are to
visit private art galleries in
Toronto or to take a more
distant trip to Washington
D.C. (or New York). It plans
to do some fund-raising to
pay for this trip.
The Art Club meets
_Tuesday nights in Mrs.
Wood's room.
--Mark Adams 10A
television, seducing us awa
from our homework, Bett
yet, the Blue Jays mak
their best efforts to glue us
"the tube".
Before we know it, winte
sets in. We bring out o
snowsuits, snowmobiles
snowshoes, snowtires an
snowblowers. We build sno
forts, snowmen, have sno
derbies and snowball fights
Winter also brings the ex
citeinent of hockey season
not to mention skiing, skat
ing, sculpting and sledding
We like winter! Some better
than others of course, bu
nevertheless, we enjoy our. -
selves. It is certainly a
beautiful sight to wake up to
a layer of pure white snow
over everything in sight.
Nothing moves as the snow
sparkles in the sun. The air is
so fresh and clean it
crackles, and the snow is so
cold it squeaks beneath your
feet.
But what thousands of peo-
ple d'on't seem to realize is
that winter ends! The snow
goes away. We put away our
snowsuits, snowmobiles,
snowshoes, snowtires and
snowblowers. Instead, we
get out rain coats and rubber
boots for the inevitable
"muck and guck" of melting
snow and buckets of rain.
However, we are not dis-
-couraged by grey skies and
rain, for we know that "April
showers bring May flowers".
And sure enough, May
brings a whole array of new
colors, smells, sights and
sounds. You can almost see
the .grass grow, hear the
■
irr
y buds burst into brilliant
er flowers, feel the leaves come
e to life and fill the trees to
to overflowing. Spring brings
new life! Kittens are born, as
r well as calves, fish, puppies,
ur piglets, ducklings, goslings;
a whole assortment of birds
d and beasts. Spring also
w brings the end of school
w nearer. But we have been hit
. by spring fever. Students sit
and stare out the window and
dream about summer fun.
This nearly brings me to
. the fourth season; summer.
For me, summer marks the
t end of school and the begin-
ning of laziness. Summer
heat makes everything slow
down. Our minds refuse to
function properly; our train
of thought keeps switching
tracks so often that it is com-
pletely derailed. Our bodies
are in constant "Slow mo".
Sports and activities are set
aside for evening, when the
sun no longer beats upon us.
Air conditioners are cranked
up; skirts get shorter, as do
shirt sleeves. Material gets
thinner and clothes disap-
pear until we are wearing as
little as possible.
Now is the time for all men
to hit the beach! The beach is
the only place to be on a
scorching hot day. Some-
times, when I'm lying on a
blanket, the heat just melts
me away. I feel like I'm
floating on an ocean of sand
Interview with the
new vice principal
At the beginning of this
school year many people
noticed a familiar face in the
position of vice principal. His
name is Mr. Wareham.
Mr. Wareham's schooling
consisted of public school
from Grades 1 to 7 in New-
foundland, then in Exeter he
graduated in 1961 ',after
Grade 8. He then went to
Glencoe.
Now Mr. Wareham is,
residing in Exeter, but
THIS
WEEK'S
CHRISTMAS
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OFF
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Layaway now for
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hoping to find a home in
Wingham. Mr. Wareham has
a wife and four children, one
son and three daughters.
When asked why he came
back to Madill, he answered
that it was, the promotion to
vice principal and because it
is a • great school.
Mr. Wareham has had
different types of jobs, such
as being an officer in the
Canadian Armed Forces,
teaching at Madill from 1968-
75, .being science head at
South Huron in Exeter. 1975-
85. He took a year off in 1981-
82 but taught for Ontario
Hydro at the Bruce Nuclear
Power Development.
Mr. Wareham said his best
job is his present one as vice
principal at Madill because
of the extremely good staff to
work with and the excellent
student population.
Mr. Wareham.'s im-
pression of Madill is of a
school with a difference, a
friendly, business -like at-
mosphere with a tradition of
dedication to excellence_
education.
Stephen Tiffin 9E
Mtistangs
lose final
The F. E. Madill Secon-
dary School's. junior football
team, the Mustangs,
traveled to Goderich last
Thursday to tangle with the
Vikings for' the division
championship only to come
out on the short end of a 52-20
count.
Mustang Coach Larry
-Earle- said byte Cronin had
London touchdowns in the game,
one on a 80 -yard kick-off and
return and the other on a
five -yard run.
Bevin Flett returned
another kick-off for ap-
proximately 85 yards and
single -point ,getters were
Jeremy Bloemberg, on a
convert and Harvey Kikkert
on a single point.
The Mustangs defeated
Stratford on Oct. 24 to
capture the semi-final
cornpetition and advance to
the playoffs.
and the heat waves are
carrying me to the heavens.
Unfortunately, my littlebrother finds it extremely
amusing to bring me back to
earth with a pail full of wa-
ter.
Then we roll back into fall.
Our minds begin to function
once more as well as our
bodies. We proceed to go
through the whole system
again without thinking twice.
It would be very difficult
for anyone,,.to read this ar-
ticle and not be convinced
that all Canadians are cer-
tainly not Eskimos living in
igloos. In fact, I wouldn't be
surprised if some people,
who experience little or no a
change of season, had hard
time keeping up with us.'
—By Donna Damsma
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- MRS, DERRILI HALLMAN, —
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Lakelet
Neighbors and friends of
the 17th concession gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Wright last Friday
evening for a surprise party
in honor of the couple's 25th
wedding anniversary.
During the evening the
Wrights were presented with
a large brass planter and
plant.
Sunday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Dickert were
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Klein of
Hanover and all visited Mrs.
Klein in Geri -Care . on her
94th birthday.
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Lk'447:st
iyeates.
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Editors: Andrea Grant
Peter Poulin
Mr. Morton is helping Mr.
Lisle's Grade 7 class with its
integrated studies program
on photography. They
learned how to develop film
and prints. They also just
have finished their oral.
presentations of their
photography projects. Next
they will, be making their
own video tapes and editing
them.
—Sslvia Wai
Mrs. McKeon's class has
been working on a lot of
things for Hallowe'en. They
have been doing projects and
making pictures.
They also did puppet plays
and listened to spooky
music. In math they are
going to be taking
multiplication.
—Jennifer Cameron
This week ,the Grade 7s
were busy working on their
"er" verbs. They also
worked on figuring the
correct, endings for je, tu, il,
elle and the plurals, nous,
vacs ils and. Iles__.
The French club held
Hallowe'en parties for the
Kindergarten students. They
enjoyed it. It always is fun to
help the other classes and
the children have fun.
—Kirsten Keil
Mr. Martin's • senior
Special learning needs class
has been going to the F. E.
Madill Secondary School
twice a week to make bird
feeders. These feeders have
an open front and a pointed
roof.
They also are enjoying
home economics. The
students are learning to
prepare salads and how to
make muffins and cookies.
In their "real life" classes,
the SLN students are talking
about the family and what
makes a good. family.
—Peter Poulin
When Mrs. Schedler's and
Mrs. King's classes visited
the Children's Museum in
London last Wednesday,,,_
they saw Hallowe'en and •
dinosaur exhibits. During
the month of November they
will be studying dinosaurs.
The classes had a
Hallowe'en party on Oct. 31
with many, spooks and
goblins. They had a lot of
fun. .Grade , i. is.,.reviewing
cardinal and original"
numbers and Grade 2 is
doing the number facts of 13.
7—Colleen Smith.
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Mr
Last Wednesday Mrs. cla sc
MacRae went_to fhe_�ri
Regional Children's gy
Museum for the day. There put
they saw the Hallowe'en Th
exhibit and the dinosaur
exhibit. In the near future
the Grade Is will be learning
about dinosaurs.
On Hallowe'en the Grade 1
students visited the hospital
and then had their party at
the school. This has been an
exciting week and we hope
all had a safe Hallowe'en.
—Todd Chadwick
asl Thursday morning,
s. Kaufman's Grade 2
ss and the rest of the
►nary -division went to the
m to watch the drama club
on Hallowe'en plays.
ey really enjoyed the
experience.
Hallowe'en would not be
the same without a party and
that's what. Grade 2 had in
the ,afternoon. After
parading down the halls,
they had snacks in their
room. They also cut and
painted masks and made
jack -o -lanterns from
balloons that are hanging in
their room.
---Heather Bishop
Last Thursday Mrs.
Martin's class had a very
exciting Hallowe'en party.
This included a m.usical.
program with the children
playing the piano, guitar or
organ. They also had fun
telling ghost stories. Mrs.
Kaufman's class stayed for
both of these programs.
°Later the class sang
choruses and read choral
readings which Mrs. Mac-
Donald heard when she was
in. Everyone wore costumes
which were very creative.
They had a great time!
—Amy Bateman
Mr. Lisle's class:-jijsi Tial
finished its golf lessons at the
golf course. Our instructor,
Mr. Knight, taught us many
things.
The drama club split into
three groups d presented
three plays to Grade 1, 2 and
3 and Kindergarten as a
Hallowe'en treat. Everybody
enjoyed the performance.
We had a pot -luck lunch for
Hallowe'en and enjoyed a
very nutritious meal.
—Scott Gillespie
In my opinion
It's early morning. A man
is wakened by the noise of a
garbage truck rumbling
down the street. Drowsily, he
pulls himself out of bed and
manages to get to the curb on
time: Instead of the regular
garbage men he is met at the
end of his lane by two ruth-
less murderers. He never
has a chance to scream as
they deliberately, mechanic-
ally and savagely pull out
machine guns and mow him
down in a hail of bullets. (He
wasn't "Glad"! )
As you view the horrific
opening scene of "Com-
mando", you know that the
fatef the movie is sealed
and you're in for two hours of
repetitive and meaningless
butchering. In my opinion,
bring back more Michael J.
Fox!
Sometimes I really wonder
where the minds of the writ-
ers of these blood -thirsty
stories are. Most of them are
absolutely ridiculous to the
point of hilarity. In our world
of violence what is to say an
unstable person won't try to
imitate what he sees on the
"silver screen". Statistics
prove that after the release
of a violent movie such as
"Commando", "Rambo", or
"Hallowe'en" the rate of
crime goes up.
Where have the light en-
tertainment movies gone?
The advertising blurb for
"Commando" is "Some-
where, somehow, someone's
going to pay". Unfortunate-
ly, I feel, the, people who are
going to "pay" will be us.
Give me a good romance
anytime!
—By Julie Stewart
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Bills account for 15 percent
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Ar►nya I AMR
lottery is held
Another successful lottery
dinner and dance was held
by the Wingham and District
Association for the mentally
handicapped Oct. 26 at the
Lucknow Community
Centre. Approximately 350
people were in attendance.
Prizes of $1,000 were
CWL euchre
Eight tables were in pia
last Tuesday at the Sacrad
Heart Church, Wingham.
Nettie Ross was high ady
and Brian McQuee was
high man. Leona Freiburger
was low lady and John King,
was low man. The door prize
was won by Jeremy
McGlynn.
Conveners for the evening
were Beth and Cindy Skinn,
assisted by Mary McGlynn.
awarded to Eileen McGlynn,
Bill Keil, Murray Gaunt,
Layton & McBurney, John
and Ruth Currie, Doug
Vanderwoude/ and Hap
Swatridge, a of Wingham;
Minerva St wart of Ripley
and Wilb: t Reinhardt and
Blanche eiss off Teeswater.
Cash trizes off $100 went to
Ross . amilton, Dave Shaw,
Eva Carr, Zorra Coulter,
Jim Snyder, Sharon Mon-
tgomery, Verna Hodgins,
Donna Sutcliffe, all of
Wingham; Mrs. Roy Hunt,
Listowel and Lucknow
Legion No. 30b -
Early -bird prizes of $500
were won by Dr. avid
Magee, Wingham and Helm
Welding, Lucknow.
Shower honors
bride -elect
Whitechurch — A shower
was held Saturday evening
in the Community Memorial
Hall for bride-to-be Kathy
Purdon. Mrs. Ruth Laidlaw
was in charge and assisting
with the gifts were Karen
Lubbers, Karen Elliott, Kim
Laidlaw and Michelle
Laidlaw.
The program consisted of
a mock wedding, solos by
Mrs. - Janet Nicholson, a
reading by Marilyn
Jamieson and piano solos by
Celia Chandler, Mrs. Jean
Ross and Karen Elliott.
Among the gifts received
were electrical appliances,
blankets, linens and dishes.
Kathy was assisted by her
sisters, Kendra and Lori. She
thanked the sponsors of the
shower and those. who at-
tended, also expressing
gratitude for the gifts and for
the lunch which followed.
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