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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-08-26, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1971 Welcome Visitors This Saturday is the day when the small village of Zurich sees it's population grow from a regular 750 to almost 10, 000. Large crowds of visitors are expected for the fifth annual Bean Festival, Just how many will come depends largely on the weather, although last year, despite the extreme heat and humidity, at least 8, 000 people were served, It is almost certain that this year the population will swell to at least ten times the normal count, Such a crowd is bound to create problems -- traffic is a particular one --- but the festival committee, gain- ing experience each year, is gradually learning to cope with these. The growth of the festival also brings diffic- ulties of a different kind. An event that attracts crowds of the size that Zuriclis Bean Festival has in the past could easily become a mag- net for the commercial interests. One of the festival committee's prime interests has been in holding com- mercialism on the mall to a minimum, and for this reason applicants for booth space are screened carefully, Such restrictions are necessary if the festival is to retain the rural and antique flavour that has brought it it's popularity, There seems little doubt that the festival will be successful again this year with any sort of a break from the weatherman. Practically all the booth space is sold to area merchants, and several new attractions have been added to the program. And the various festival committees seem to have the volunteer manpower sit- uation under control. Everything is in readiness for the biggest day of the year in Zurich, and the people of the community extend a sincere welcome to all the visitors who may come to our fair village on the occas- ion. May the festival bring back fond memories of those in the past four years, to all of you. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 400 Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; _ 111011,- Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association VW ,relrr:ription Rtes: x.60 per year lira adivraunce, vim (C'aainiadiat, $5.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents TREES ARE FOR THE BIRDS By Bill Smiley For years I have been a tree - lover. Not that I knew anything , about them, or ever planted any. But I did know the common var- ieties. And I did have a feeling that they were something spec- ial in a world steadily growing more ugly. I had what you might call the "only God can make a tree" syndrome. There was something mystic about trees. I have written ecstatic columns about the trees around our place: the matronly maples; the magnificent oaks; the tower- ing spruce; the virginly elms; the lilacs; the single butternut. I have sat in my backyard and watched them by the hour, deepl; moved by the human qualities I gave them. Even that dirty great cedar that drips mucus or something all over the clothes- line. I have been fascinated by the clunking of acorns falling, by the sweet, longing whispers of my two elms, by the muttering of the dowager maples, by the solitary arrogance of my spruce, which I have to crawl under to get into my tool -shed. But I'ni beginning to have doubts, like a priest who has been swept away by something he doesn't quite understand, and then discovers that there's something rotten in Denmark. If not in his own backyard. That snarl you can't quite hear outside my window is a chain saw. The operator is hacking up one of those brooding oaks which came crashing down during yesterday's summer storm, cutting telephone, hydro, and indispensable of indispen- sables, the TV cable wire, both for myself and my next door neighbour. All I'll get out of that is a bill for $100 and twelve bucks worth of fireplace wood, too green to do anything but stnouldei I'd just got back from a long drive in 90 -degree heat, lugged in all the junk from the car, and settled in the backyard with a cold drink and the evening paper when nature tool< one of her whims. For a few minutes, it was en- joyable. The wind came up. The lawn chairs went flying. The acorns rattled, and leaves and twigs hurtled down on me. I even went in and called the girls to come out and enjoy the storm. Then the trees started to twist and dance. Even the mighty oaks were writhing like tormented creatures. I love storms, but when the rain carne I dashed for shelter. I'd suddenly remembered a storm at the cottage, when I was a kid. Same thing. Purple sky. Dead calm. Sudden wind of cyclone force that knocked over giant pines like toothpicks, and a torrent of rain. One 80 - foot pine snapped about halfway up and smashed through the roof of the cottage. It wasn't so bad this time, but one of my oaks, with a girth of about 40 inches, lay there like a stricken bull. It had dest- royed a fence, several smaller trees. Fortunately our neighbours had got the kids inside before the real fury of the wind broke, and no one was hurt. This morning I talked to the hydro men who were stringing lines. They told me that they had worked all through the night, in a driving rain, and laconically remarked that it wasn't much fun. But to get back to trees. They provide shade and they're pretty to look at. What else? They shower you with unwanted leaves in the fall. They suck up all the juice and prevent you having a decent lawn. My two virginal elms have been raped by the Dutch disease and look just like a couple of gentle old maids who have been raped. It will cost $200 to have them buried. My giant spruce is uprooting my garage at a rate of about two inches each year. , My cedar (it must be from Lebanon; I've never seen such a gawky thing in Canada) is little but a rendezvous for mating squirrels. It would take wild horses to snake me cut them all down, but I'm beginning to think that perhaps trees are for the birds. 0 Abouf People You Know .. . Mr. and Mrs. Peter Proll, of Duseldorf, Germany, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Proll, at the Dominion Hotel. Mrs. Pauline Jeffrey celebrated her 82nd birthday on Sunday, August 15. She received many lovely gifts, money and cards, along with good wishes from her family, grandchildren, friends and neighbours. Spray program may control field bindweed Field bindweed may be control• led for beans, corn and grain in 1972, by a stubble spray prog- ram now. The re -growing plants in a grain field not underseeded should be sprayed with Banvel 3 or Kilmor at five acres per gallon of chemical. This treat- ment will not eradicate the weed, but will require two years 10 grain with stubble spray each year. The stubble should be left two weeks before plowing or disking to maximize the chem- ical effect on the weed. Photography Children • Portraits • Weddings • COLOR or BLACK & WHITE HADDEN'S STUDIO GODERICH 118 St. David St. 524-8787 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 Issac Street 482.7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9.12 A,M, — 1:30-6 P.M. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235.2433 Exeter Robert F. Westlake Insurance "Specializing in General Insurance" Phone 236-4391 — Zurich Guaranteed Trust Certificates 1 Year 6% 2 Years 62% 3 & 4 Years 7% 5 Years 8% 3. W. HABERER ZURICH PHONE 2364346 AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service That Satisfies" DIAL 237.3300 — DASHWOOD FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE DIAL 236.4364 — ZURICH ACCOUNTANTS Roy N. Bentley PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT GODERICH P.O. Box 478 Dial 524-9521 INSURANCE For Safety , . . EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All Insurance — Call BERT KLOPP DIAL 236-4988 — ZURICH Representing CO.OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION