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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-07-13, Page 4Pc�eJe 4 July 13, 1977 Dear Editor: Sportsfest is being held in Kincardine on August 12,13 and 14. 1977. It consists of 12 recreational event tournaments. We are trying to get as much involvement as possible from communities such as Zurich. The success of Sportsfest '77 will largely depend on participation frominterested people and organizations in the community of Zurich and surrounding area. Sportsfest is sponsored and organized by the Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association in co-operation with the Ministry of Culture and Recreation. The Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association is an organization made up of Recreation Directors and Recreation Personnel from Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth, and. North Wellington Counties. Through these tournaments we encourage fun, participation, good sportsmanship, low key competition, and hopefully on- going inter -community com- petitions in the future for these developmental sports. There are events for all ages: - Archery, soccer, table tennis, shuffleboard, euchre, swimming, horseshoe pitching, T -ball, womens recreational softball, mens slowpitch and girls softball, and tennis. Registration forms, rules and details of Tournaments are available at the Zurich Recreation Committee. Deadline date for registrations and fees is July 23, 1977. We are trying to provide as many towns, organizations and individuals as possible an op- portunity to come to this year's host community - Kincardine, and participate. Anyone in- terestedfrom the Zurich area may contact Mr. Raymond McKinnon of the Zurich Recreation Committee or David MacDonald, Sportsfest Co - Ordinator, P.O. Box 583, Kin- cardine, Ontario or phone 396- 2421, Hope to see you at Sportsfest '77. David MacDonald Sportsfest Co -Ordinator To the Editor: May I express the appreciation of the South Huron and District Association for the Mentally Retarded for your support again this year for our Flowers of Hope campaign. We'd like you and your readers to know that through your cooperation and the diligence of many volunteer canvassers the results are most gratifying. To date : $8,500 has been reported. This is a further increase over last year and we are encouraged by the area's increasing interest in the mentally handicapped. All` donations will remain with the local association now involved in ARC, Dashwood, the residence in Exeter and the nursery at Grand Bend. In closing may I again say "thank you" for the wonderful area support and also suggest to those that may have been missed in the canvass your tax deduction gift may be mailed to the association, Dashwood. A very special thanks to all our dedicated canvassers. Donna Greb, chairman Flowers of Hope Association for Mentally Retarded Dear Editor: I am writing in reference to the TV programs on "Auschwitz". The concluding statement "we have to make sure this does not happen again" was ironic and very disturbing to me. Every hospital with an abortion clinic is causing mass ex- termination of living people. Everyone knows that a baby is living long before it is born - even as early as six weeks of pregnancy there is a heartbeat and it is completely formed physically. These aborted babies are also used for ex- perimentation, as were the Jews, How are they killed? Babies that are too big to be dismem- bered (literally torn apart) by sucking them out with a vacuum cleaner device, are drowned in a pail of water, left exposed in a refrigerator, given a shot of saline solution (this is like bur- ning them alive) and etc. Abortions number 40,000 to 50,000 yearly in Canada alone. Their total number far exceeds the number of slaughtered Jews. Talk to your friends and neigh- bours about abortion and they will shrug and mumble "the government will stop it if it's that bad." Write to your M.P.'s and they pass the buckonto the people with always much the same story - "abortion is wrong but this is a free country, they say, and everyone is entitled to his own religious beliefs," Since when is it permissible to kill in a free country?. Since when should the choice of Jaking a child's life depend on your religious beliefs or your lack of religious beliefs? The reasons given for the "Auschwitz" programs was to educate us and prevent mass extermination of people again, yet here we all are - knowing that the painful extermination of thousands of helpless children goes on every year and only making excuses for its. con- tinuation. Yours truly, Evelyn Regier FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS Published Each Wednesday By J.W. Eedy Publications Ltd. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association E3NA Manager - Betty O'Brien News Editor - Cathy McKinley ° Second Class Mall Registration Number 1385 Subscription Rates: $7,00 per year in advance in Canada $14.00 per year outside Canada Single copies 204 by Cathy McKinley Fairs to Farewells It's that time of the year again, when tricycles and bicycles don amazing garments of ribbons, bows. feathers and just about everything else you can imagine, It's the time of year when ponies are brushed until their coats gleam and young and old, their owners polish up their finer points on riding and showing. It's the time of year when young 4-H members get a chance to show their calf to someone other than their little brothers and the fence posts and accept a challenge of working hard to make a good showing. It's the time of year when mothers spend extra hours in the kitchen baking the perfect cherry pie knowing all the while that whether or not they win the blue ribbon, their families know their pies are best. It's the time of year when young girls practise their homemaking skills to challenge each other, or hunt for that special dress that will make sure they end up Queen of the Fair. It's the time of the year when seniors get a chance to show off the skills they have perfected over years of prac- tice and have their hobbies admired by all. It's the time of year when people gather together and spend hours working on floats which will entertain and make the parade a huge success. It's Fair Time, and it only comes once a year so there is only one chance of feeling the excitement and thrill of see- ing something you have done, or made be admired by everyone; only one chance to see your baby take the blue ribbon or make tears come to your eyes as she sings or dances or does whatever at the talent show, or see the crown decsend on her head. It's a very special time of year, and it is only a success if everyone takes part. It is also a lot mor, fun if you are in - .volved so think about it. There will never be another ll3th annual Zurich Fair, so don't miss it. * * * * This, by the way is the last column I will be writing in the Zurich paper as I am leaving the paper as of this week. Trying to write a last column is difficult, what do I say? Do I talk about the most embarrassing things that have happened, like the time I tried three times to get a picture of the Lions presenting a check to the arena I believe it was. Once I had no film in the camera, once the film did not roll through properly and the last time I got the picture but my flash was not working. Of course the Lions told me it might be their fault and after the third time I was beginning to wonder. Or do I talk about the best paper I felt I put out, or at least the most fun, which was of course the Bean Festival issue. Smelling beans baking beside the office for a whole week and tasting batch after batch as they came from the "refrigerator ovens," marvelling at the home built custom made cabbage cutter and how slick it works or the custom built carts; seeing all the people here on that day and eating even more of those delicious beans but missing out on the pancakes because there were too many people there before me. Do I say thanks to everyone who called to let me know when something was happening, like the time I got a call very early on a Saturday morning and raced into town to take a picture of a car accident that had occured the night before and found out the tow truck was waiting until I got my pictures before towing the wreck away. Or do I write about the winter, when every Monday seemed to bring on a blizzard and it took me two hours one day to get four miles on the Goshen. Or the weeks when the only news was all the meetings which had been cancelled and the paper was full of cancellations and pictures of snow, snow and more snow. Or the getting of those snow pictures as the lens fogged and my fingers froze and usually the snow was swirling through the air and you couldn't tell if the picture was taken through a foggy lens anyway because everything was usually all white. Or should I talk of the hazards of this job such as the time I was trying to take a picture of the volunteer workers digging the holes around the arena and kept backing up try- ing to get them all in the picture only to end up falling into the hole they had just finished digging. I still think they must have realized how close I was getting and could of hollared a warning, but they claimed they would have if they had realized I was going to go for a dive. I guess there are a lot of things I could write about, but I just can't make up my mind, so I'll think about it, and maybe `sometime I'll let you know.