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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, X972
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As most of my regular readers
are aware (let's hope there are
still some regular readers left
after some of the "social com-
ment" in this column of late)
my husband and I have three
children, two very average
teenagers and one very average
six-year-old., .a boy.
As most Canadian children
raised in a kind of middle-class
home these days, all have had
the opportunity to learn to swim
Our eldest son was offered the
chance to go to swimming
classes when he was a tot...but
he refused. He still cannot swim
...and has no compulsion to
learn. He's a land -lubber, I
suppose, like his father who
believes that "swimming" is
little more than mass bathing
for the purpose of cooling ones-
elf on a very hot day in mid-
summer.
Our middle offspring took
swimming lessons... but didn't
pass one single examination. As
far as I can discern, she swims
like a fish but cannot and will
nor conform to any accepted
style... which, of course,
immediately disqualifies her
from citation for a swimming
badge under any accredited
swimming instructor.
But our youngest child is
another matter. He's been enrol -
F nn Union
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District 5 of the National
Farmer's Union held a well
attended meeting of the district
executive and all local execut-
ives
xecutives and members Thursday
evening, August 17.
Plans were made for the NFU
booth at the Bean Festival in
Zurich, on August 26; also an
NFU float will be presented in
the parade at the Mitchell
Fair.
Plans are not complete as yet
for the NFU booth and also a
float at the Ploughing Match,
September 26 to 30.
On October 7, the NFU Dance
will be held in the Sebringville
Hall, where the draw will be
made on the tractor for which
tickets are being sold in District
5.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
led in swimming lessons for two
summers now and if there's a
crest to be earned you can bet
he'll earn it.
When this child was just five,
he was actually afraid of the
water. He'd go to the lake with
us but no amount of coaxing
would get him into the water.
He's sit on the edge of the beach
playing in the sand and should
the water get too close to him,
he'd get all choked up with
tears and high -tail it for dry
ground.
Being a dutiful mother, I
was concerned. This child was
tall for his age . I suppose it
deflated my ego to see much
small children happily splashing
in the water while my kid cring-
ed and squirmed if a wave dash-
ed over his smallest pinky. So
I enrolled him in swimming les-
sons.
I took my son to the pool just
down the street from us and exp-
lained the situation to the little
girl in charge of tots. She nod-
ded knowingly as I confessed that
my son was a real timid tyke
when taken to the water. I told
her we were going to the lake
for the summer and I wanted
him to be at least comfortable
while near the water and not
screaming with fear the minute
he got a little damp. She under-
stood, she said, and enrolled
him for swimming classes at the
end of July.
In the meantime, we went
to the lake at the beginning of
summer. I wasn't afraid to let
him go to the beach with his
big sister because I knew he'd
do nothing but sit in the sand
and build castles or whatever it
is that kids make in the sand.
Then one day I walked down
to the beach to check on my son
and to my horror he wasn't there,
I searched everywhere --except
in the water, I was in a panic
by the time I heard his voice
call, "Iey mom, watch me."
I turned my head just in time
to watch him diving off the
little boat dock into the water
below. I was shocked to silence.
I could only stand there and
gape as.he bobbed in and out of
the water like a cork.
Needless to say, the first day
of his swimming class was a
disaster. His teacher looked at
me as though I'cl developed
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leprosy right before her eyes.
My shy little baby took to the
pool like a dolphin, leaving his
classmates dripping and dazzled
in his wake.
After two days in class, my
son wouldn't listen to his teach-
er any more. He didn't like
swimming lessons, he told me.
He couldn't have any fun, he
said. His instructor didn't en-
courage me to leave him so I
gave up in disgusi and took him
home.
This summer, though, I
enrolled him again, hoping ag-
ainst hope that my son and the
pool staff had forgotten the
first experience. They had.
After the first day of lessons,
my son gleefully announced
he had been promoted. On the
second day, I was told he'd
been promoted again. On the
fourth day, I went to the pool to
see for myself.
Sure enough, there was my
son lined up with his classmates.
He was the smallest... but hardly
the least attentive. On the
whistle, he was in the water.
Front crawl. Back stroke. Flutter
kick. Float. You name it.
From dry dock to swimming
champion... to mother's surp-
rise.
About Peonle
You Know,..
Mrs. Shirley Craig, of
Toronto, visited a few days
with her mother, Mrs. Nancy
Koehler and her sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Len Erb, of Hensall. She also
attended the Kennell reunion
at Kitchener.
Six area students conducting
a project in Hay Township
this summer under an Opport-
unities for Youth grant were
featured in an interview broad-
cast over CBL radio station,
Toronto, on Sunday morning.
The young people heard on the
interview were Sandra Webb,
Carol Gingerich, Nancy Rae
McKinnon, Jo -Anne Gaiser,
George Farwell and Gary Flax -
bard.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Witmer and family, and Mrs.
Morley Witmer, all of Detroit
visited last week at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Stein-
bach.
Mrs. Pauline Jeffrey at Blake,
celebrated her 83rd birthday
last weekend. All her children
and friends were there.
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