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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-02-04, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Stars of Minor Hockey Day SUE ANNE WALKER AND BOBBY HAY HARRY SMITS ANL) DOUG GLEED y GRANT LOVE AND FRED MOMMERSTEEG ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second ,Class Mail Registration Number 1385 quo lP% 411.6 Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year im advamce in Canada; $5.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents THURSDAY, FEERUARY 4, 1971 WINTERS OF MEMORY ALL THE COLDER By Bill Smiley There's nothing like a solid stretch of really cold weather to remind you that Nature still packs a mighty wallop, despite all man's ingenuity in trying to keep his chin cover- ed. We've had a dandy around here – day after day of be- low -zero temperatures. Even though they have been bright, the sun had about as much ef- fect on the atmosphere as a fried egg, sunny-side up. Everyone enjoys the first couple of days of such a spell. We all feel like hardy pioneers when we stomp in out of the cold, eyes and noses running, and exchange such inanities as, "That's a real snapper" and "cold 'nuff fer ya?" But after a week or so, it begins to get to you. You begin to remember those stories about people who go mad in the rainy season, or when the sirocco is blowing. It doesn't affect the kids. They love it, bundled to the nose and full of warm, red blood. Most of the elderly hate it, and visibly shrink. It doesn't bother the outdoor enthusiasts, because they keep warm doing something. They can't lick it, so they join it. It's the ordinary, simple, every -day householder like me who begins to feel the pinch, and develops a deep gloom. When you turn the key in the car and it just groans like a wounded buf- falo, before expiring. When you look up at the ever - thickening ice on the roof and remember you've just had your living -room redeco- rated, and know it's going to cost $30 to have it chopped off. And finally, when your downstairs facilities don't work, and you realize with horror that even in this day of oil furnaces, inside pipes can freeze. And the oilman cometh. And cometh and cometh. This is the time when you should stop and realize how lucky you are, instead of bending everybody's ear with your petty woes. You should remember how it used to be. Like most Canadians, I was brought up on cold win- ters. Earliest recollections are of midwinter Sunday morn- ings. My mother would take my kid brother and me into bed with her where we'd help ourselves to the breakfast -in - bed she always got Sunday mornings, and listen with fear and fascination to her tales of winter on Calumet Island, in the Ottawa River. The best was about the time Lady, the dainty little mare, went through the ice and the dreadful time they spent try- ing to rescue her. I think she died. There there was my Dad, He hated winter and made no bones about it. It was Depres- sion times, and the coal bill was an albatross around his neck. He was a mild, gentle man, never known to say any- thing stronger than "shoot". But inside him was some of the wild despair of his Irish forefathers, When he'd go down to fire up the furnace, I'd get my ear up against the furnace -pipe and listen with delight to lan- guage that should have given me curly hair, interspersed with the occasional clang, when he'd belt the furnace with his shovel out of sheer rage, I spent a winter in north- ern England, with archaic and often non -existing heating equipment, except in the pubs. Sheer, clammy misery, except in the pubs. I spent another in Germany on the Baltic Sea, with very little food and almost no heat. Not much joy there. Then 1 got married. Our first place had two wood stoves. I'd hop out of bed, plunk my freezing baby in with his warm mother, and rustle up two fires. Then 1'd take a roll of newspaper into the cellar, set fire to it, and unfreeze the water pipes which froze solid every night. Then off through the zero to the newspaper office, which boasted one of the last wood -burning furnaces on the continent, You could see your breath in the place until about 11 a.m, We graduated to a coal fur- nace, which did nothing but produce in me the same vio- lence and frustration my father had felt twenty years before. When I think of those days, and step out of bed into a pleasantly oil -heated house, I realize what a piddling little cold spell we're having now, and almost feel like going out in the snow in my pyjamas and doing some push-ups, Al- most. Plan New Bridge Tuckersmith Township Council at a special meeting in Bruce - field approved $94, 400 in road expenditures for this year. Of this $31, 600 will go for construction costs and $62, 800 for mainten- ance. A supplementary by-law was also approved for $52, 000 for the construction of a new bridge at sideroad 5-6 on Concession four to replace the Sproat bridge. Reeve Elgin Thompson was appointed to the llensall Fire Area Board; Councillor Cleave Coombs to the Seaforth Fire Area Board and Victor Lee, R. R.4, Seaforth, to the Seaforth Community Hosp- ital Board, Approval was given to a tax sale by-law for any property on which taxes in 1968 were not paid. Notice to Farmers ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING of the Federation of Agriculture will be held on Monday, February 8, 1971 at 8:30 p.m. in the HAY TOWNSHIP HALL Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527.1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m.. Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Isaac Street 482.7010 Monday and 'Wednesday Call either office for appointment. 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