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HENSALL TWILIGHT
• SPRING FAIR
On
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, at 5:30 P.M.
MIDWAY IN ATTENDANCE
Parade 6 p.m.
Zurich Centennial Band
Zurich Lions Majorettes
Baby Show -7 :15 p.m.
In The
Arena Auditorium
SPECIAL PARADE PRIZES
Prize List Available from P. L. McNaughton, Hensall
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PAGE TWO
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970
POPULAR SPORT - One of the most popular sports in the area at the present time is Pony
Racing, and the Huron County Trotting Pony Club have scheduled 12 such etgents for this area
during the coming summer months. The action shown here was at the Exeter track this past
Sunday afternoon and six drivers are seen heading for the finish line. Races have been schedul-
ed for the Zurich track on June 14 and June 28, and then again on August 22, in conjunction
with the annual Zurich Bean Festival. (Photo by Duward McAdams)
Area Woman Adopts Foster Child
Mrs. Jessie V. McAllister of
R, R.1, Zurich, has financially
"adopted" Ivan Gomes, a nine-
year-old boy from Brazil, through
Foster parents plan, 1500 Stanley
St., Montreal.
Ivan is quite a handsome lad
with expressive brown eyes and
curly, dark hair. He is most
friendly, cheerful and well-man-
nered. His delight is a soccer
game with friends and he dreams
of having his own ball and a bic-
ycle some day. He is a lst-grade
pupil at Guilherme Briggs School,
a walk of 15 minutes from where
he lives in a slum area of Niteroi.
Two years ago, after becoming
mentally ill, the father abandon-
ed the family. He is given a
disability pension and out of it
contributes about $3.75 a month.
To this is added $12.25 that the
mother earns as a laundress, giv-
ing them total income of $16.
for a family of four persons.
There are two older girls living
with grandparents as the mother
just could not support there. At
home are Ivaneli (6) and Ivani
(3). ach week, mother spends
about $3.00 for rice, beans,
coffee, sugar, macaroni, cheap
meat and milk for one meal.
Never can they buy vegetables.
Ivan is sometimes given a snack
of soup or milk at school. Cook-
ing is done at a gas stove, this
fuel costing $2.00. Forty -cents
goes for kerosene and rent is
$2.00. Water is carried in large
cans from a well at the foot of
the hill. Cast-off clothing is
sent them by charitable people.
The mud hut they live in has
three small rooms with dirt floors,
A kerosene lamp provides dim
light after sundown and there is
no toilet facility. A chamber
pot is used and the excrement
thrown in the brushwood outside.
Furnishings consist of one crib,
one bed with old mattress, one
well-worn blanket, no sheets
(unknown) and a chest of drawers,
also a table, two Wooden chairs
and a sofa. The shack is poorly
LSMFT
- FERGUSON mower $150
— GEHL 6 knife forage Harvester pickup, one row
cornhead $700
— FORD 612 harvester, zero grazing head, pickup and
cornhead
(A better one for $1500)
—FERGUSON 3 -furrow plow $85
— JOHN DEERE 3 furrow plow $250
- ALLIS CHALMERS 4 furrow snap-cupler plow ... .
$250
— FORD 101, 3furrow 14" plow $360
— OVERUM 3furrow 14"plow $500
— FORD 32 plate wheel disc $700
— CASE DC 4 $250
— CASE "D" $395
— ALLIS CHALMERS "B" cultivator and mower ...
$395
— MASSEY FERGUSON "35"D $1100
—OLIVER "550" gas $1300
— FORD S. M. and loader $2150
$3200
— MASSEY FE RGUSONmuiti power pressure control
$5300
— 1968 FORD "4500" tractor loader and 15 ft.
backhoe $9500
SPECIAL PRICES THISWEEKON NEW FORD 501
7 FT. MOWERS.
$1100
— FORD 6000'D'
Snider Motors
LIMITED
FORD TRACTOR
EXETER 235-1640
LUCAN 227-4191
built, almost collapsing now and
it is no longer safe to lave there.
Bad as it is, it is clean and neat.
The youngsters seem in fairly
good health. The mother is
rheumatic and has some internal
ailment that requires attendon.
Ivan is learning quickly bow to
read and write numbers and let-
ters. Recent grades in tests earn-
ed him 100, 70 and 50%. He
thinks he will be a truck or bus
driver when grown as he sees
that the best way to help his
mother,
The Foster Parent's responsib-
ility is financial, not legal and
the child grows up within his own
family. The objective is to help
the child and family to become
self-supporting through improved
health, nutrition, and education-
al opportunities.
More than 11, 000 children in
ten of the world's developing
countries now are being cared
for through Foster Parents Plan
by individuals and groups in
C anad ►. They exchange letters
with the children each month,
receiving both the original and
translations supplied by PLAN.
The $17 a month (or $204 a
year) contributed by the Foster
Parent through PLAN for a min-
imum of one year, provides a
monthly cash grant, supplement-
ary new clothing and household
goods carefully selected to meet
the needs in each area. In add-
ition PLAN offers medical care
when called for, primary school
education and in some cases
(continued on page 8)
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