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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-05-23, Page 30;1, • I Uxey I 0 1 tl lig,. 'rather ttreVialting t,town after and fill a n�a l out what it was lice to gr . tip there forty -odd • years a o t The younget,people don't know wit • you're , talking about. The peaple your own age are .either deaf or dead, and dorritt know what you're tl about either.. Well, that Was a recent ex- perience,' T was asked to speak at a Chamber of Com- merce •dinner .in Perth, where I was reared, after a fashion. Special theme of the even- ing w sthe celebration of the 15Oth' 'birthday of the Perth Courier, the second oldest weekly newspaper in Canada. 11 Perth, down in Eastern Ontario,, was a centre of cul- ture and class (rich and poor), when Ottawa was a brawling lumbertown and Toronto was Muddy York. My speech was the ideal moment for a lapse into ro- tundic hysteric hyperbole, and plain old bull -roar. I suc- cessfully avoided all three, as is my wont. I just told the truth, as al- ways. And, as always, I re- ceived a standing ovation. The standing ovation, which used to be a rare and heart- felt response to a speech in which a politician promised new roads, new docks, or a new post office, has become as emotional as a good sneeze. It is now a chance for people to get off their bums, up from those • hard chairs borrowed from the funeral director, on which they have squatted for two hours or so, and stretch their arthritic joints. It also signals the end for those who have fallen asleep. You can hear the groan of relief welling be- neath the hearty handclap - ping. I didn't praise the Cham- ber of Commerce. In fact I stuck a needle into them. As a former weekly editor, I know all about the Chamber of Commerce, in another town. We met monthly if we could get a quorum. There were always four of us. I guess that was a quorum: the President, two members dragged out of the pub or off the curling rink, anti!., ink,, bs reporter. Talk of saw Ie4as- tries, new approaches to.. tourism, and "a gene 1 up- grading from the p90040.• , meters floated ,through . air for two hours, theh, we'd. all go happily home, for another month. This one was &little differ- ent. The officials talked in hundreds of thousands of dollars, mostly government grants, where we used to talk about the impossibility of raising $200 for a tourist in- formation booth. At any rate, the Perth Chamber was gra- cious and exceedingly gener- ous. l think the whole trip didn't cost me more than $100. I also needled the publish- er of the Perth Courier, but rather gently °I've been over that route, and publishers get the needle from readers so regularly that they barely feel it, except when it goes to the bone or the heart, which it does every time. What shook me was how old a lot of people were. There I was feeling a ripe old twenty-eight, and these ancients came shuffling up and saying, "Hey, Bill, re- memer the time we ... ?" My only resort was to say, "Hoor you?" When I found out I was mortified. A great strapping chap stuck out his hand and said, "Bill?" I responded, "Hoor you?" He just said, "Roy", and there I was confronted, and recognizing a first cou- sin I hadn't seen since 1945, he just out of the navy, I just out of the air force, having a couple of beers together. We hadn't seen each other, or exchanged so much as a card, since. A few other faces emerged from the bald heads and lined faces: Cam Chaplin, a raw-boned dairy farmer who tackled in football like a brick wall hitting a heap of marshmallows; Jack Scott, another boy of the same ilk; Kay Lightford, sister of my old college room -mate, and her brother, Grover, a wi- dower with six children who married a widow with four, and who grasped me earn- estly by the lapels and told me I should consider marry- ing again. Aside from a few, it was a family reunion. My big sis- a ter, dimmer, who instigated • the whole affair, put me 'up for' three' days and tried to forceOW-me. Her son, Pete, and Air C'iagada captain, just happened; to drift up from Montreal, .and his little sis- ter, Heather, took a jaunt downronl,. Pembroke. I used to baby-sit them. My little sister, a nurse, drove with her husband, some white- haired old guy called Jack Buell, with whom I'd played football forty years ago, floated in from Brockville. We had quite a time, swap- ping lies and figuring out who was dead, who'd had a stroke, who was divorced and why. We'll probably not ever be together again until the day my ashes arrive in an urn. Something unusual, and very moving for me, Occur- red at the dinner. I was told that an elderly gentleman, or as some put it, "an old man", had been waiting out- side the hall for about two hours, wanting to see me. A bit bewildered, I told them to have him come in, And I finally nailed the old devil who has been writing me for years, signing him- self, at first, "Your TV Re- pairman", and later, over the years, just "YTVR". I knew he lived in. West- port, Ont., but couldn't answer his blunt and caustic comments, his kind and en- couraging notes, his sensi- tive letter when my wife died. And there he was. He wouldn't come in to dinner. He had to drive home, in the dark, at over 80 years. He'd come all that way just to say hello, Smiley. He gave me a gift which I thought might be a chamber -pot, with his sense of humor, neatly.wrap- ped. It turned out to be .a beautifully handwrought wooden bowl, which I shall treasure. More about him later. Furnace mustn't cool Once started, a glassmak- ing furnace must operate continuously for several years to pay back its high construction costs. The com- ponents of glass become molten or "liquid" at 2,700 degress Fahrenheit or high- er. 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In- set the needle into the next stitch in the usual way, pass the wool round the first two fingers of the left hand and the needle twice, as you would for knitting. You can hold the firsttwo fingers quite comfortably behind the left hand needle as you wind the wool over the needle and around the two fingers; com- plete the stitch, but before you slip it off the left hand needle, knit into the back of this same stitch. You will now have three loops on the right hand needle from this one stitch just worked. Continue along the row working the loop -stitch into every stitch. On the next row, knit the three loops or stitches, -.made from every stitch on the previous row to- gether. At the end of the row, you will have your normal amount of stitches again. It is the knitting into the back of the stitch, combined with the knit three together, which "locks" the stitch and prevents the loop from pull- ing out. I should mention that loop or fur -stitch is usually work- ed with fairly large needles. The two rows that I have given are repeated until the desired length. However;' you can if you wish, work two rows of stocking -stitch be- fore repeating these two rows. Any shapings should be worked on the stocking- stit* rows, or on the knit three together row. This stitch is great for bathroom mats. I've seen several worked with the heavy poly- proplene yarn that is in all the stores these days, and it is ideal for this type of knit- ting, as it is complete machine washable and dry - Anna Bolena on CBC -TV May 27 Legendary opera star Dame Joan Sutherland will. Make her debut in the role of Anne Boleyn in the Canadian Opera Company's produc- tion of Anna Bolena at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre. 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