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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-27, Page 25`THWHILE 1 GENERAL Include us i y"''ur plans If you're planning a wedding, plan to visit us tirst tor wedding stationery and accessories Listowel Mount Forest Milverton Wingham 291-1660 323-1550 595-8921 357-2320 WORKS LENT Through its loans pro- gram, the National Gallgery of Canada shared its fine arts collection with other Ca- nadian museums. Canadians were able to enjoy 144 works of art in 28 art galleries across the country, Five paintings by Canadian artist Alex Colville were exhibited in Halifax and Vancouver. Four works by Michel Snow NBastTire Winter p�P` ■ Specul were s in three provinces. Lands pes by E.J. Hughes broug the West Coast to the Atlantic region. Other major loans to Canadian exhibition centres were an important print by Hans Durer, several paintings by Cornelius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson and Jean-Paul Lemieux and a large selection of works by contemporary Canadian artists. the Neighborhood Professionals' _ tfi N All Weather Design General Ameri* Ways All Season Radials • 5 -rib button bloc tread design • Dimensionally stabilized polyetster cord construction • New steel belt system • Fashionable white sidewall styling • Also designed for front wheel drive application e.g., - P195/75 R14 - $65.70 P205/755/R14 - $69003 P225/75 R15 - $82.1 2 , installation Free J Ameri * Ways Glass Gripper Snow • Wide, deep, tough traction tread • Smooth -riding polyester cord construction • Trim white sidewall styling e.g. - P195/75R14- $62.05 PP205/75 R14 - $66.24 • P225/75 R15 - $78.70 Installation Free GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK Let us help change over your Summer Tires to Winter Tires FOR JUST 2 a 99ea. SPECIAL PURCHASE 111011Basttire git Hwy. No. 23 N., • Listowel 291-3020 Car IN LISTOWEL ••• t# $$ or ;"'"""emmi Attentio Going out on a limb There's nothing more ex- hilarating than going out on a limb. It begins when you're very little, when you eat a worm to see if he'll stay alive inside you,, or pick up a toad to see whether you'll wind up covered with warts. Later, it might be climbing out on a long, shaky tree limb over a de =p pool, when you can't swim. Or it might be caught up in a tree, shirt stuffed with apples, while the voice of Geo. J. Jehovan thunders from beneath. "Come down, ye little divils: I know yer up there and I'll whate the tar out of yez and the policell put yez away fer life." Or it might be caught in the act of swiping corn and racing through backyards and over fences, with the cobs dropping and your heart thumping and the shot- gun going off into the sky. Or it might be, about age 12, smoking butts with the hoboes in the "jungle" be- side the railway tracks, and having a drunk with a gallon of wine come up and start terrifying you with all sorts of obscenities you don't understand. Or it might be, about 14 and spotted like a hyena with pimples, having to ask a girl o a party, knowing that you are the most repulsive, awk- ward pooby in town. This a often limb to be out on. It could be saying, "Don't ou say that about my mother!" to the bully of your ge and sailing into him, ourself outweighed 20.. pounds but your fists and eet and teeth going like a indmill. Or it could be a swimming - y exhilarating moment, like he day when I was in high chool and kissed my French acher up in an apple tree. 50 She was a spinster and six ears older than I, but if I re - all, it was a swooning ex- rience and I think we bott .unit up hanging, by otfr it ees from the limb. These are some of the mbs I've been out on. Lots other limbs. You've had urs; .round limbs, crooked mbs, rotten limbs, smooth es, brittle limb?;,• sturdy es. We have all gone outon limb. When' you're young, you n't really know the differ- ce, or you just don't care. s climbing out on the thing at matters. Even at 20, I s climbing out on a limb, ying desperately to make e grade as a fighter pilot, eating blood so that I r Y a Y f w s to Y, Pe w kn li of yo li on on a 'do en It' th wa tr th sw At Ity: -Honda 1020 WALLACE AVE. N. could climb out on the fragile wing of a spitfire and be killed. What an irony! Those who didn't make it were broken-hearted. And then there's the limb off marriage. Most m,ales will climb out on the first limb that is endowed with long eyelashes or trim ankles or a big bust. Even, though they know it's a very green one, or a very brittle one, out they go. I was lucky. The limb I climbed out on was firm but yielding, green but not brittle. And I damn soon dis- covered that when you. climbed' out on that particul- ar limb, you didn't carry a saw, but a parachute and an iron -bound alibi. However, what 'I started out to say was that, as we get older, we climb out on short- er and shorter, safer and saf- er limbs, until we are finally left, clutching the tree -trunk, even though we're only two feet off the ground.. The old limbs (or the young limbs) creaked and swayed and cracked and dipped. They are replaced by the limbs of safety and con- formity and security and enough life insurance. And the sad part is that these are the limbs we want our children to climb out on, no farther the two feet from the trunk and no higher than two feet from the ground, while they want to climb on the swinging limbs that will said them to the skies or break and let them fall. All this of course, is a pre- amble to the fact that I'm still willing to go out on a limb: If- somebody will fetch a step -ladder and help\ me get started up the tree. THE WAY WE ARE NEXT YEAR COUNTRY Alberta is in the middle of "The Boom". Construction ,cranes nest on • dozens of building projects in down- town Calgary. Activity in the oilpatch is feverish. The time is "now" to get a piece of the pie and that's just what Jack Simmons and his three bud- dies, Greg, Arnie and Woy- tek plan to do in Calgary's half-hour drama . special , being televised on Thursday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. on CBC Television's "The Way We Are" regional series. The four men represent Calgary's "new money". They've formed Simmons Consulting Geologists and have optioned rights to two quarter sections. Together with several foreign in- vestors, they plan to drill a • total of five wells. "Without a question, it's one of the most promising plays I've seen in 16 years as a geologist," says Jack. "The rocket is on the launching pad, putyour money down and get on board." It's an expensive, business, and it's risky. But what could possibly go wrong Crossroads—Nov. 27, 1985—Page 9A all knitters Wouldl you knit a warm lit- tle pneumonia vest and pro- vide warmth for a small Ethiopian'tnfant? The nights and mornings can get very cold there and many die from pneumonia and other related diseases. These little vests, so easy to make, will be sent to these little ones where the need is great. Help is needed urgently and you can be sure these pneumonia vests will reach those who need them, as they will be sent through "World Vision Canada", a non profit organization which has been working for the under- privileged of the third world countries for 35 years. Mem- bers and volunteer staff from World Vision will be there personally to distribute the vests where they are most needed, along with food and medical aid. Instructions for making these pneumonia vests are ready and waiting to be dis- tributed to those willing to help. 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