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Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-10-14, Page 12it vfi 7a too before ore anyone kit'matter. Wilk holt t want to see rttt, tragically, h`ke ,all ga , tim; :, vacation Ciurie7te a clue, and with it most of our freedom. Yet,4iespite this I was look- forward to school again By i. M.Couceited It kes me sick, it'i kes mf: sad a. To think that an .angel like me ass; bad. I'ritaiuch too kind and sweet yo rlhin i• I"'m. >t: Wonderful and that 1:Io `to lovok'myself, it's WOW Christmasand'birthday tune;: `1 can't wait To give Myself something, I'm terrific you know •rm'just~• wonderful and that Ioovela;party. that is m my •.given 1 like hew cars that' have never 4,been driven i'in lnecahe m . t :likeable you :,F •w.. brat -wonderful and that ile I'll t for My Mod- ysfii g dl gorgexws cam- .f fJ6"i'mlin cjustablt tli4,40hl2, It for no other can than,to see iny., friends again 1 resolved that in .this,my last year, 'would work bard, within reason, and have, sortie. We. " ' this be &ROT" you ash, I'm willing to give it: h try. I'm mireother8 are willing to try a1sor All 1 reaily,hope'for now is that the 8041,11,Year goes by as fast as the^animrner, filled with good times and laugh- ter. That's thewhole purpose of our School Page,. to bring you the good times and laughter of F. E. Alt the writers •here have at.,.least one thing in common: We • want to'Vrlte about all the news, whether funny or sad, topical' or opinionated, that occurs in our terrific school. wen write about the tears and laughter triumphs and sorrows of the students and the coz namity, the best that we know how. We may not be Nobel Prize winners, but tce're willing to give it a shot. Please bear with us, through our grammatical errors and spelling mistakes this year. With luckand good proof-reading there shouldn't be too many. We sincerely hope you will love reading our articles this year. Enjoy yourself! Liz Brydges, ' Editor r WOLVES Wolf dog like shy smart,sly prouaantitwe%as always running tree roaming endless ni the woods ' fe�a�rlesswild Si'Benni"e Burchill Z bt .Ontario Yeti, eople ` pni't man ex ange`. ogiraam this year . `tlatMt only offered work • pert: alma chanCe •to learn about another ntry.' �: .- he program is -Medd the - 'Wend agricultural iitulige It`. places young - Ple aged 18''to 2013 agri- Cultural and horticultural • • ',0,410e1 an l' " si'he .program from , the Ontario staadp' pint 13 really } s in its second year, and we've' alreadynoticed in- creasing interest," reported Cay Johnson,, coordinator of the program for the Ontario tilt 4f Agriculture and as ,r Th• mon who whispers in o well about the things he has to sell will new make os many dollars as be who lbs floe and holm let THE ADVANCE -TIMES Do your shouting for you CALL 357-2320 1 one-third more young people par'a'cipated'.in the , program this year compared to last yeer . • • The exchange program offers work in silt • ountries: Holland, Denmark, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and,: the latest addition, Switzerland.,. ° "Theyoung people work on . horticultural or Agri- cultural . . operations for periods of four months to one year," Said Mrs. Johnson: "Dining this thite, they are employed and paid.. as any other worker in the host country." The program is riot a scholarship or grant program. The young people are, required to pay their own transportation costs and are expected to have enough money to carry them until. their first paycheque. This year France was the most popular destination for the Ontario exchange workers. Nineteen young people worked there, eight in Holland, three in Denmark, four iar the U.K. and one in Japan. On the other end of the ex- change, Ontario hosted 43 young people from those countries this year. Applications now are being accepted for the 1982 ex- change program: Interviews with applicants are held in November and December to allow the time for placement and clearance for spring departure. To apply, young people must have at least two years of agricultural or horticul- tural experience. A year of study at a university or college in an agricultural or horticultural program can be credited as a year of expeeience. Applicants also mnusfb uiadiaer 11rzens. Application forms are available at ' agricultural offices, colleges of agri- cultural technology and student placement offices. inquiries may be directed to Mrs. Cay Johnson, Agri- cultural Manpower Services Branch, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Legis- lative Buildings, Toronto, M7,A 2B2. Grapevine There was a school dance ,held front nine to one at F. E. ` Madill last Friday. "nixie' goes Hollywood" . supplied the music, which was en- joyed by all. There was a basketball tournament at F. E. Madill on Friday and Saturday, the second and third of October. Several teams from other schools competed. Last Thuusday,:lthe first of October, F. E. Madill hosted a volleyball tournament. The students were let out early to cheer on their team. There has been a contest running in the school both this week and last week to name- our new school mas- cot. He is spirited, fiery and should have a name with the same' qualities. The entries will be judged and our mas- cot will be named on Friday, the second of October. On. October 2, Some Madill students went to Silver Lake to spend the weekend at an ISCF kick-off weekend. ISCE will be holding several events through the year to get kids together and have fun while they share their Christian beliefs. By Nancy Moore Madili's spat Stacking lockers, the fav- orite sport of the elder, and younger students of our be- loved F. E. Madill Secondary School. For those of you un- acquainted with the term, stacking lockers is the art of opening another person's locker, piling the books and tests in such a manner that the opener is caught in a cas- cade of falling literature. Many a senior student has perfected the art of finding other's lock combination an putting the books up in.such a way that they will fall out. After the locker is stacked and the victim has opened it; the next phase of the oper- - ation-ispswitehing4he-blame; commonly called "passing the buck". Passing the buck is done as quickly as possible to put the anti -stacker searcher off the track. In retaliation against fur- ther attacks, the victim quickly but quietly 'goes to the office and switches locks. This usually throws most stackers off balance, but the steadfast find the combina- tion and it starts all over again. Such is F. E. Madill's fav- orite sport. Ry Clint Pewtress .y: .a �.F ail e' VVhat cto I write about? Again I sit in my favorite chair in the library. A thin trickle of sweat rolls across my brow. I look nervously at my watch. The deadline ap- proaches with each tick of my timepiece. "What to write? What to write?" I think frantically. Then! A stab on light sears into my mind. A story at last. I think quickly and with my vast amount of writing ex- perience the story begins to take shape on my paper. My. pencil smokes and flares sparks as it flies across the paper. Soon the!story is com- plete and as I race through the library door I throw my smoking pencil into the trash and I manage to hand my ar- ticle in just in time. • You have just read what. happens to this writer all too Often, but; who cares?. I'm ' used to it and besides I write better under pressure. • By Clint Pewtress • e By Fred J.F.K.J.R. Solomon 1- wish to State that any relation to -anyone living or dead or in: between is purely coincidental, because this,is absolutely fictitious meaning it is positively fiction. Now, to begin a soon-to-be continuing .saga about two families: the'Peevishvilles and the Rottingdales. These two families are about to start a drama that is bound to become a startling shock- ing dynasty. This dynasty is centred around the modestly small yet dynamic little high school, of F. E. Madill, in a distinguished little town called Wingham in, 'a re- markably united little prov- ince of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada. Our story starts at the be- ginning, which is a good place to start, where we find Petty Peevishville sitting in her bedroom on the night be- fore her very first day of high school. "Mother!" Petty screams at the top of her lungs. "Where's that new dress. I bought for school tomorrow? Did you get it. pressed? Did you buy me new nylons and where's my purse: aid ...?" Petty is dressed' in night-. gown, housecoat and slip- pers and begins to descend the stairs. She has short blond hair and remarkably dark eyes that are deeply in contrast with her fair. com- plexion. She has a model figure that she has found does not make it easy to make friends with other gh°B• As she stops at the bottom of the stairway, Petty finds her mother and -father seated before the fireplace on the couch. Her mother is an older and more mature copy of her daughter except she has light blue eyes which oorfibine more readily with her fair complexion. Her father has rugged features with-dark-eyesand-.a.darker complexion than his wife and daughter. As Petty walks over to the big fluffy chair, her parents stop what they are doing and watch as she flops down into the comfort- able seat. "Oh, mother, I feel sick! I don't think I'll be well enough to go to school to- morrow," Petty says. Petty's another, Matilda, looks at Petty's father, Ted, with a knowing look. "Well, that's really too bad, because 1 thought you were waiting so anxiously IMFItOVEMENTS Quetti: Is there any- thing, abut the school that you Wo like improved? "T th music isn't loud enouig the cafeteria and we n, 'u new import of ' guys,"Rachel Campbell 9A., "NOaotivity periods." — Anonynous. • "Showers after Pls. Ed. class, ; for x'15 minutes!" -- Julie :lulv„ey 10E. "A Hot „„:,.the lad Club," — Bill . "Grade 0 spares," — Tom Inglis. "Schoolfor two days a , week, " Alan Clark. "You name it; we want it changed! "- Sandra Tur- vey, 1211 l'Allownig Wein a 10younger stu- dents - to be welcomed and accepLed,.,to the lounge!" — Anonymous.loC & loD. "Student . Council should have more power!" — Bren- da Merkley;•10E: for. this''itay to '-come," Matilda lanswers. • "Oh, twaslutopri I just feelssick!". . "I'll` go and::phone the -doc- tor and . we'll see what's wrong" Ted says. "Oh uh. , .er. . ,.that's not 'necessar .. I know what's wrong and . well, I justcan' t,go to s'chool,,Mom you understand,' .4014611?" Pettypleads °Yes,. I ,do. vane darling you're' going...to school . to- morrow no mutter what and that's exactlyf how well I understand." "Mom!" Petty cries. "Go to bedso jtou'lhbe.able to get up in the morning." 1 Petty sulkily heads;for the stairway and, with an effort at formality she,tt rns back and says, "Night Mom, right Dad." "Goodnight ..dear," they both reply. ,, - Up in her bedroom Petty sits on the side Of the bed and stares at the.,mirror. " I"don't want to go to schoolbecause. I'm sick sick and scared," she: says aloud.. She climbs into andshuts Off the light It'si.` i fairly light outside beennie of the full moon. Petty'taihs+, to herself in consoling tones, "Oh, it'll. be OK, all they can do 13 hate me." •"ShO r classes," — An- cGregor` ",Wore"flays oft:an■d leader Andrea McGreg- t4Smokingtlur- ing` .ispares., and ua -tlte lounge;,' Anonymous. - " A new paint jolt! •Purple with pihk :polka :dots, -- Pat. a Kieffer . s , . "Vire need a floor in the tuclk shop! "1-n:The`tuck shop managers. "Gat a -deceit television and stereo in the lounge. A television that gets Channel 13 (for Another World) and the radio should get. more stations than Black "1 don't :love it:, but I can't'thi"nk_of any," - Tim Stainton. • "Alcoholic •• beverages should be, ;served m : ,the. lounge," Anofy)nous lob- viously). "No activity . periods , be- cause they're kiinda useless. People would do ac- tivities stivities not connected with the shied' school;" Helga Mir "New teachers or replace ,thetea k ars with computers o ,"' ymous. ,< ► "Ramps instead of stairs for. the handicapped,"( .— Valerie Johnston. - "Elevators .. instead of. stairs," Anne Kernaghan. "More participation, school spirit, purple power," — Louis Harnaek. , "It'sperfect the way it is," — Nathan Peel (president of Students' Council) "The color scheme doesn't do anythuig,for me.° 1t should be redonein differentail Lisa Gartliss.. -By_Carolinelitelve 112F Graee.Scbmidt 12111'- oplo •Il ii# ,kle; de �ul P .ions, sinp fell,m?�of a strong Stratford .Northwest - STAY TONED NEXT WEEK WHEN WE WILL FIND OUT: ' How Petty manages her first day of high; school; how Petty manages Rodney Rot tingdale; who Rodney Rot- tingdale is; and who exactly wrote this column. 1u fr.unwanted ilei around the house iiffirektra each!' Cres rr a classifiers 3`F m: individuals Fad 1 ' whesogene y sponsored our tournament. Undouil y, without the . contributions of° so.. o many surtes, our tournament . d not have inn► +s o} oestsfu!1. _and worthwhile an endeavor as allteams. ported it to be , wih ur . tourna mentAnd `int'sothe. tpasto, both„the seniors and juniors are loot- ingforward to a great season of basketball. See you*in the gym! re - I 'C 4 4th T I X .:.,< .p I CHERYL iliAseKillnaltl mf Teeswater was :crowned queen of.the.Teeswate r'Fah Pair last Friday evening.. Cheryl is a:•Grade 12 student at the F. E. Madill.,Sec- -ondary, School.. , ; i.. rg n +t +cert featuring from Hammond Organ Company creativity it originality • musical warmth • professionalism' •35, petOi98; 8p.m. Canadian Legion Home: - =k 565 Elizabeth St. E., Listowel Pick up FREE tickets at Sorensen Music Centre 204 Main St. W. Listowel • Before Saturday,\ Oct.. 24, 1981 `s DoorPrizes • Refreshments _i. Arrrniinces' TheGrandOpening of our :.new log in Wingharn. For 4days only from Wed1, Oct. 14 - Sat., Oct. 17 our 10 oz. or 30 oz. case will be on sale fig only U.:i Case Plus Deposit & Tax • 4 tr 4w, Mk a lass Free Sampletli Baloons TryUl.BetYou'IILjkejjs earodafasoft drink MOW, 'IT}lc'f'°"" PS11rr���}E' RINTOU.L'S Pools & Spas ''A Mile North of Wingham oro No. 4 Hwy. RR 1, WINGHAM, ONS'. 357.2628 STORE WOOS Monday - Closed Tuesday . Friday ' 10:00. MOO Saturday 10:00 - 3:00 ��a