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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-08-23, Page 3THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 23 1989 3A WHEELS, WHEELS WHEELS was held at the Seaforth and District Community Centres on Sunday afternoon. attracting 50 collectors with 58 entries. About 700 spectators came out to see antiques and street machines, vote for the car they liked most. get a chance at winning one of several door prizes which included a Dave McLlwain jersey, and attend the barbecue following the show. Corbett photo. heels from page 1 ford because the owners didn't want to drive in the weather. Still, there were 10 more entries than at last year's show. and there were different entries including the Seaforth Fire Depart- ment's recently restored antique truck and a limousine -a 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood owned by Don and Donna Fisher of Goderich The farm machinery show saw the en- trance of five tractors and several plows m its first year. but again the weather was blamed for a lack of entries, and a farm machinery show in Brigden also attracted many local farmers The dinner was in- tended for 200 guests. but only 140 people stayed for the barbecue Attendance at the show dos year was at 700, doom from 900 last year "If we'd had 15 more cars, had 100 more people at the show. and sold 30 more din- ner tickets we'd have made about $700," says Mr. ' Nesbitt. as is the show organizers will be looking at breaking even. CHECK THIS OUT - Some car fans at Wheels, Wheels. Wheels take a .look al the push-button transmission in this 1958 Edsel Citation owned by Fred Glanville of Bayfield Corbett. photo. THE PEOPLES' CHOICE WINNER at the Seaforth car show this year was this '69 Plymouth Roadrunner owned by Paul McCallum of Walton. Wheels, Wheels, Wheels was the first show for this car. Mr. McCallum has another '69 Plymouth convert.. ble which he is working on. Corbett photo. CADILLAC COLLECTORS - Don and Eileen MacRae of Dublin are seen here in 'one of the caddies they brought to Wheels, Wheels Wheels. This one is a 1970 Cadillac Convertible and they also showed a 1968 Cadillac. Corbett photo. • THUNDERBIRD COLLECTOR Darcy Rathwell of 'RR 1 Ranger, beside it is a 1957 Chev Belay, next is a 1966 Brucefield and his wife Madeline brought four cars to Wheels Thunderbird Landau, and finally a 1964 Thunderbird Convert • Wheels, Wheels, the car show at the Seaforth District Cpm- ble which was Mr. Rathwell's first collectable car five years munity Centres on Sunday. In the foreground is a 1959 Edsel ago Corbett photo Seaforth native Karen Corbett lives as Karen Corbett. daughter of Don and ;s• Grace Corbett. of Seaforth, recently return- ed from a year in Africa where she tstivelled by donkey cart and dugout canoe, haggled for her every purchase, lived in conditions many North Americans would describe as primitive, experienced Africans ,and things African, and fell in love with ;the continent. So much so that she intends ;,..,to try to move there Karen has been going to school at ?Coastal Carolina College in South Carolina for the past four years, and left for there Tuesday to start her last year of Political ; Science studies, Coastal Carolina is among many universities in the United States which is part of a program offering stu- dent exchanges. So Karen had only to pay her tuition, room and board, and her air- fare to be able to go to school at a univer- sity in another country participating in the program. She chose the national universi- ty of Abidjan, capital of the Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). "I guess I chose it because Idtnew it would be different•" says Karen. In Abidjan she found university, the on- ly university in the country, was far from western standards, if not a farce. "In general the university was a waste of my time. The professors often came to class late or don't come at all, and they talked about things off topic. It's just not very serious, I had six classes and took five tests, one of which didn't count, and wrote one paper," says Karen, and for these six classes she had only two books. "I didn't like the university, but I liked be- ing there." But in spite of the quality of Abidjan education in general, there were some in- teresting courses and the odd good pro- fessor. Karen studied History, Literature, Anthropology and Droula -the language most spoken on the Cote d'Ivoire. Most of the people of Abidjan speak limited french and a lot speak some english "and they're always willing to try it out." In six months of studying the African language Karen found it easy to learn, "it was pretty sim- ple to pick up a good base in six months." "Not many white people would speak it, so people would love it when I tried to speak in their language." A particularly interesting course at the university was Drumology, the study of Africa's "talking drums". Before there • were written records in Africa the people kept track of their history through the rythm of drumming, and those who could recognize the text would hear the stories. In the class a drummer was brought in and beat out part of the text, then spoke the same text, and the drumming and ver- bal sounds were recognizably similar. But it was not the university studies had a great affect on Karen, it was the African lifestyle, and things she saw away from the university and the city of Abidjan, a ci- ty of over a million people, where the peo- ple are caught up in trying to tmmitate westerners. She travelled outside the city on occa- sion, and visited villages where houses were built out above the water, travelling on the cheap in a cart drawn by a donkey and guided by a young African man, and saw traditional buildings and mosques, and witnessed African ceremonies. One such ceremony was during the . Festival of the Yam over New Years. Legend is that in a time of famine a god told the first member of the tribe to take his son, kill him, cut him into pieces and bury the pieces. Where the son was buried yarns grew, ending the famine. So each year a ceremony is held to commemorate the sacrifice of the first member's son. Karen and several other visitors went to a village to witness this ceremony, and watched as people entranced .walked about the 'streets, some stiffly, ,some quickly but without purpose, and others failin and rolling in the dust. TheY kicked up a huge cloud of red dust which covered themselves and the spectators. Some peo- ple then produced imives and began to cut and stab themselves, as part of the ceremony. One might imagine this as hor- rifying, but Karen says not. "It wasn't volienee for the sake of voilenee, it .was the .way they've always done it," says,Karen. "It ,wasn't 40Meone cuttiing himself for the :sake of ,showing tti.,•.- blood, there was a :put'ipse i�e1>JId lt. KAREN CORBETT' on a beach near Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Karen spent the past That's -why it •didn't m. so clh�ti, ' year going to university in Africa on an exchange program. Karen arm ;other ceremor ies,sJaeh es the burial of a Iohief,,and tthe sCi-ebrahons of an African for a year events Christians celebrate in the west, but 'west. Water was always cold and all with an African influence. clothes had to be washed by hand, There But most of Karen's time was spent in was no refridgerator 1, her room and on - residence at the university. That alone of- ly a hot plate to cook with. Her biggest at fered a lifestyle much different than in the Turn to page 4 THE OLb QUARTER with its traditional buildings in Mopti. M North east of the Ivory Coast. ;ountry to the tirr ihoaie'kl y ua rrialgn the IhF,pttt rdfitto ra ot,sivont lit di,tpn r-oorltot ed., Aug.23 RIngette meeting at.Arena Thurs., Aug. 24 Men's-Balthpckey.et S,D,1rr 7:00,p.m.-iElrewprs vs.,,glgaphwppd $:a0 p.m. - Topnotch vs•.Seabawks. t., ug. 26 9.:0 and 10:46 a.� Mmor,H ®eague ;dall,piaypffs st the Optimfpt,park fveon., Aug. 28 - Fri., Sept. 1 3ker Safari" Vacation Bible School a tteu,.. Bible Church, Egmondvllle f 9i•. "1 for details. Tues., Aug29 7:00,p.m. - Lathes Recreation Ball at Lions Park