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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-09-26, Page 12a HOWICK SS NO. 1—This picture, taken at the Howick school around 1930, shows, In the back row, Robert White, Alberta Ferguson, Alta Finlay, Charlie Wolfe, Mildred Dane, Woodrow Dustow, Mildred Stewart and Leslie Edwards. In the front are Florence Dustow, Viola Dustow, Margaret White, Erma Harris, Dorothy Stewart and Helen Priess. The teacher Is Miss Nellie Inglis. ( Photo courtesy of Arnold Gadke) r a MRS. DEROLL HALLMAN Lakelet Local members attend .. . - • ... yr -t ,..4. ,>.. . DRIVING ttADtT/ Y ,►rata �Reeu atarb. `��- held at Cant= or me � °°Try � �` cancer soc• conference hour tras'c Mr and Mrs. William Behras BELGRAVE — The Van Camp spent the weekend with Mr. and Approximately 35 members to show them the ways they can family held a picnic in the Clinton Mrs. Harold Klein in Fowlerville, from Huron County including beat help their local units. park on September 16. Besides CLASSICAL Michigan, and attended the several from Wingham were r. p Scholefield assistant the local families those attending /.�� Dietrich reuruun held in the among the 300 whd attended a executive director elof the National were Mr. and Mrs' Kenneth GUITAR Conway Hall on Sunday. Canadian Cancer Society mini- Cancer Institute, was the Johnston of Victoria B.C., Mr. LESSONS conference at Chatham -Kent featured speaker. and Mrs. Gary Black and Jef- Mr. and Mrs. John Jacques Secondary School last weekend. frey, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Swartz returned last week from a ten- The conference was hosted b the The ��� and annual meeting � � and Mrd Now available by well •x- day vacation in England. Y for the executive officers of the and sons of Clinton society's 's for Dave Murray, Miss Lill& Taylor p•ri•nc•d teacher, classical Y Canadian Cancer Society, guitar lessons, In the Win districts. and Miss Nora Van Camp of 9 9 - Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kreller Wingham Branch, is coming up ham area. visited last weekend with friends The meetings were open tq the Oct. 1 at the Pineridge Chalet Wingham, Mrs. Norma David - general public and served to near Hensall. The oast speaker son' Mary Sue, Karol and Eddie Pr•pariny for Royal Cons•r- in TiUsonburg. ex g of Glencoe, Mr. and Mrs. Batt votary of Music Examinations, plain the various roles of will be Monique Begin, former Harris and daughters of Tees- University of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mustard members within the society and federal health minister. Tickets water, Mr. and Mrs. Len Zeven- and Mr. and Mrs. David Mustard for the meeting are available at bet en of Hepworth. i6 each from Don Kennedy, gFor more information were Sunday visitors with Mr, y, 357 - and Mrs. Jim Inglis. - - o 0 0 1562, or Mrs. Doris Michie, 357 Call Anita Dekker and St. John Ambulance says first Mr. and Mrs. Harry Judge and D� CeAf1'e News Y family visited Sunday with Mr, aid is knowing what to do and 357-1W5 and Mrs. George at Caledon A large crowd enjoyed the what not to do when someone is 4% Andrews injured. East. activities at the Day Centre this - • week. On Tuesday clients from Belgrave, Ethel, Lucknow and roup sings Wingham attended. In the morning we had tea and coffee followed by exercises, a sing- • BRIAN M.J. MCILHARGEY, C.A. song and games. Margaret in Hamilton Pollock, our new cook, prepared The members of the double trio and a delicious meal with the of St. Andrew's Presbyterian assistance of volunteers Chinch enjoyed a rewarding JAMES B. MACNEILL, C.A. Catherine Rae and continozellaued Ard.with experience on Sunday when they After lunch we continued with were guests of St. David's and St. leather craft; this week key fobs John's Presbyterian Churches in Are pleased to announce the opening were made and painted. The Hamilton. The members, Mrs. afternoon concluded with tea and of their office Wallace Richardson, Mrs. Ed cookies. The Thursday group was made Beard, Mrs. Hugh Clugston, Mrs. for the practice of accounting. up of clients from Bluevale, Mary Lee, Mrs. John Day andMrs. Murray Underwood, sang Lucknow and Wingham. The The firm wilt practice morning and lunch followed the four numbers in each church. same pattern as Tuesday. After They were accompanied by Mrs. under the name of lunch the clients saw a slide Don Robertson. St. David's and St. John's are presentation on the day centre. McILHARGEY & MACNEILL The slide show will be available served by Rev. Gordon Fish, aformer minister of St. Andrew's. in community groups interested Here at home, Mrs. Ross CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS n the development and activities Hoggart played the organ in Mrs. of the centre. The afternoon Robertson's absence. Olive Lapp at consisted mainly of clients and Mrs. Janet MacAdam sang working on their ceramic 546 COLBORNE STREET projects; the day again closed two duets, accompanied bySylvia Beard. Olive Lapp and LONDON, CANADA with tea and cookies. Anne Campbell shared their N6B 2T8 A Tea Dance i planned for experiences at Presbyterian 519-679-8630 Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Ar- Congress with the congregation. mouries and all interested Rev Dr- Robert H. Armstrong seniors are invited to attend conducted the service and chose French and Mabel Dobson then each taught for a year. between 2:15 and 3:45 p.m. Music as his sermon title "By Grace Names of the children shown here were not provided. will be provided by _Earl and Through Faith". e ( Photo courtesy of Arnold Gadke) Martha Heywood. HOWICK SS NO. 2, 1900-1908—Six teachers taught at the Lakelet school between 1900 and 1908. Tillie Watson taught for one year followed by William Ferguson for two years and Miss Cameron for two years. Miss Skilling, Jennie FIRST TRUCK—This photograph shows Charles Bondi with his first truck, purchased in 1919, which took over fruit delivery from the horse and wagon. Carl Bondi remembers going to the railway station every Wednesday to get a load of green bananas which were hung in the cellar to ripen. Bondi family still operates fruit and vegetable business Not many small businesses these days and cart with his first truck and over time, as remain in the same family two generations trucks got better, he eventually' started later. However one example is the fruit and trucking in the fruit himself from the Niagara vegetable business founded here and still Peninsula. London and Toronto. owned and operated by the Bondi family. Until then the fruit came by train from The wholesale business recently passed to Toronto and Carl Bondi remembers getting a the tmru gc.,v.a�::,:, "_-. ^^� tura Carl truckload of green bananas every Wed- Bondi's three eldest sons, Charles, Barry and nesuay, •^ #),o 1+ocemonf John, while Mr. and Mrs. Bondi will continue where the temperature was raised gradually to run the fruit and candy shop on Josephine by steam until within a couple of days they Street. started to ripen. How the business came to be founded in Carl left school at the age of 14 to help out in Wingham is an interesting story in itself. Carl the business during the Depression years. Bondi's father, Charles, came here as a young Later, in 1941, he joined the army where he man about 18 years of age. He had been spent five years before returning home and to working for his uncle, Louis Bondi, in Mount the family business. In 1959 he took over the Forest and was on his way to visit a brother, business from his father. Frank, who ran a fruit store in Kincardine. Carl has some interesting memories of the The train on which he was travelling early years he spent on the job with his father. stopped for a short time in Wingham so he He recalls a time back in the '30s before walked downtown for a look around. He liked snowplows were common on the highways what he saw and decided to look for a store in when he and his father set out for Goderich which to open a fruit market. with a number of fruit orders. He opened the store the same year along the "We went to Lucknow and then from main street where the laundromat now Lucknow we started over to Dungannon. The stands, getting his fruit shipped in from roads started to get so bad that when we were Kincardine. About two years later he started at Dungannon the roads got blocked in and we a delivery route through the country with a couldn't go any farther but we started out and horse and wagon and Carl recalls it used to all we had was a shovel and we'd maybe go take a whole day to travel the route to through some drifts and get stuck and keep Bluevale, through Wroxeter and Gorrie to shovelling and go through some more. Bellmore and then home. "It got so bad there that down about the He would often stop at the Henry Merkley Nile I had to run in and get a team of horses farm near Bellmore for lunch and a son, from a farmer and he hooked onto the truck William Merkley, who farmed there until and between the shovelling and pulling it took recently, recalls the bananas he brought, us the rest of the day to get over to the No. 21 although he said he doesn't remember Mr. Highway. We didn't even get to Goderich; we Bondi ever eating very much. stayed about three miles out of Goderich at a In 1917 he married a Renfrew girl named farmhouse overnight. Josephine and she ran the fruit store on main "There was just an ordinary tarpaulin over street from 1917 until 1972, serving customers the truck to keep the fruit warm so the farmer for lib years without ever taking a vacation. there brought a lantern out of his barn and In 1919 Charles Bondi replaced the horse hung it in the truck to try and keep the cold Wingham ... Inits 100th yea- r FRUIT & CANDY SHOPPE—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bondi, after operating the family wholesale fruit business for the past 20 years, are now running the recently -opened fruit and candy shop on Josephine Street. out so the fruit wouion-i 15C During their years in Wingham the Bondis had stores in many locations. From the first shop they moved across the street to where the new post office stands, later to the building now occupied by Snyder's Studio, then across the street again to the shop oc- cupied by Miller's Ladies Wear. When they put in the new store, now Gemini Jewellers, they added a restaurant to the fruit shop and Carl's brother, Sam, ran it for a number of M years. Although times have changed from the days when the Bondis were the only fruit wholesalers in the district Carl said he still enjoys the business. 'The fruit and vegetable business is an art. It's different every day and every year and very exciting.'' He also noted his father never regretted moving to Wingham, over a period of time a dozen people worked for him and he was always very pleased with the sociability of the town and the respect which the Bondi family enjoyed over the years. "We've been serving the area for 67 years," he said. "We hope to make it 100." He added that although they still get the fruit from pretty much the same places as before the supplies are continually diminishing as farms are taken over and turned into housing projects and highways. "if the farmlands were left alone, frult and vegetables would he a quarter the price they arc today " Bluevale Rev. Wayne Baswick of Mississauga spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Moffatt. Hunters urged 'think safety' Once again the hunting season is here. Each year hunting acci- dents, bring tragedy to many families, usually because the most simple rules have been broken. What can you do? Never consume alcohol before or during a hunt. Know the identifying features of the game you intend to hunt. Never shoot in the direction of buildings or livestock. You cannot depend on the com- mon sense of the hunter beside you — wear bright orange. The handling of firearms re- quires great care. The Ontario Provincial Police Force reminds hunters of several basic gun - handling rules. Always handle a gun as if it were loaded. Never climb a tree or fence with a loaded firearm. Always carry your gun so that you can control the direction of the muzzle. Unload unattended firearms. Few hunting deaths are acci- dents — they are usually caused by negligence. With some thought and care most of them could have been prevented. Don't be at either end of an "accident", use common sense measures and enjoy a safe hunt- ing A !J01 N... FOR ALL REASONS. 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