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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-08-03, Page 1Inaorpotanntl russets Post 50c per WI); he flvtn1 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO; WEPNESPAY, AUGUST 3, 1983 — 18 PAGES Ontario Schoars have varied career plans JANE BELL, daughter of John and Edith Bell, qualified as an Ontario Scholar with her 82 per cent average. Employed at Keating Pharmacy as a pharmaceutical assistant for the past three years, Jane will be taking pharmacy at the University of Toronto this fall. Her aim is to become a pharmacist in a community drugstore or hospital. LINDA BLAKE, K , daB u hter of Mr. and Mrs. LA John Blake, will be attending McMaster University, Hamilton, this fall. Following a four year Bachelor of Science in the nursing program, she plans to be a registered.nurse. She had an average of 83.5 per cent. Linda is working at home for the summer and babysitting. LYNNE DODDS gra dated from Grade 13 —Ittitth an 82 per cent a rage. A daughter of Don and Maja Dodds, s e will be majoring in Family and Consu. r Studies at the m University of Guelph. She plans to become a high school teacher. This summer, Lynne is supervising play school and playground activities in Seaforth, GREG HOGGARTH is the top Ontario Scholar of Seaforth District High School with a final average of 86 per cent. Son of Al and Margaret Hoggarth, Greg is working on the family farm. He will be attending the University of Waterloo, majoring in mathe- matics, He plans to become a high school math teacher. WILMA VAN DYK attained a grade 13 average of 83 per cent. A daughter of Margaret and the late Ted Van Dyk, Wilma is employed with the Seaforth recreation department and Mac's Milk. Following a honors business administration course at •- . Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. she hopes to be a chartered accountant. Brussels painter likes his barroom scenes ' A man sits alone at a barroom table, usually sketching, sometimes painting. He looks like an artist. At least the way most people think artists should look like. Some might think he stepped out of the history books. He probably would have felt at home with famous painters Van Gogh, or Rem - brant. He looks like they look. The artist looks up for a moment and continues painting. His long, Flowing grey hair is pulled back, held in place with an elastic. His full grey beard, checkered shirt and blue jeans remind you of a lumber jack. . But, his blue beret and paint brush show his true identity - an artist. A woman walks by his table. Intent on his work, the gruff looking artist looks up and a metamorphaisis takes place. As'he talks, his face lights up in a smile. His eyes sparkle, giving him a look of , ynInt* . His smile is real. Ray Bird and his wife Joan make their home in Grey township, near Brussels. Most people know him as a farmer and'wine maker. To others, he is an artist and sailor. Semi -retired, the couple 'has travelled extensively. On their trips, usually one every two years, Ray sketches and paints. Their travels have taken them to Mexico, Greece, Turkey. Portugal, Spain. Morocco, and If 1 paint something directly (no sketch), it's Bulgaria. When they h • ght they are not inas donhonestly. If I paint from a sketch, i have much interested in • sightseeing We aso in immediate contact with the subject. Some- things interacting different the people.per"We get to aye times, there are only certain moments i can from perspectives." says aint, when light conditions are right." Joan. "Travelling is like painting, you learn P' Rayhas also completed a painting from a all the aspects. We look at things different poem. The' poem was sent to the couple from ly•" a Toronto friend. it relates several scenes Ray's favorite setting I sketch. barrooms. "The includingapartyheld at the Bird farm, owners don't mind y I Ray.'1 don't's a free floor people ancig, an accordian player and show for them," says Ray. "1 really try friends sipping homemade wine. The paint - to draw peopig the way they look, but what in is ppentitled, "The Red they are doing and feeling. In a bar, people Acgcois appropriately' are relaxed, animated, talkingto each c had to use summer and winter in one other." icture," says Ray. "I had to use many "If Ray ever becomes known, it will be for dimensions in one painting. It's something 1 his bar scenes," says Joan. "When sketching had never done before." in a bar, he tends to be the centre of attention. get 1otic a char a out of aintin " says Someone has suggested publishing a black Ray.'When 1 paint 1 get the and white book on bar scenes," reaction of the people." A self-taughtbartist, Ray schoolhod enough He laughs at an experience in Spain. "I didn'tntc eprim that public drawing in ath was sittingon a street in a small Spanish "Back then,h him for wrockets math village, drawinga building. A fellow came class. "Back 1 drew and g and sai1 should paint what i had streamlined cars, before there were ever any along (continued on page three) rockets." One of his first paintings was taken from an old black and white family photograph. The scene shows a man and his daughter ploughing a field with oxen. "Painting from a photograph is an accomplishment. You can almost smell the oxen, But it's not my form of art." His style is impressionistic. The paintings are not the usual landscapes or buildipgs, the ones that sell. "These type, 1 feel, aren't much of a picture. I have my ownstyle, a style 1 am only now beginning to be able to tell what it is. Maybe I'll quit painting when 1 get to the point when 1 can tell you what it is." The paintings, of an abstract nature, show people. "The people are not detailed, but there is enough likeness to recognize• the person. In a way, i am depicting the actions of a person." 'Some people are offended when they see how they were drawn, but most get into the fun of it." says Joan. "Ray is so weird the way he uses color. 1 like it." REACTION IS IMPORTANT "Right now, I'm getting the peoples' reaction and appreciation. Whether they like or dislike,means the same to me," said Ray. Most of his painting is done in the winter, applying to canvass what he has sketched. "I don't sketch from memory, only on occasion. • Student starts drafting business with loan Even though he hasn't had any business yet. 18 -year-old Terry Baillie who borrowed a student venture loan to start his own drafting business in town isn't giving up. "People •might think I'm crazy to try my own business but it's a challenge and I'm doing something I enjoy." he says. By putting an advertisement for Terry's General Drafting ir, the Huron Expositor and talking to people all the time, the young man from Seaforth is ready for a customer but he's not wasting any time waiting around. He's working as a construction worker for a company in Clinton during the weekdays and 0 working on a design for a house for at least three hours every day. "Even though I'm working, I could still handle some designing." he says. "rhe design I'm working on right now keeps me going and gives me some practice." His design is a two storey brick house with two garages. five bedrooms. two bathrooms. a fireplace in the living room, an office and a large kitchen. He figures it could work as a farm house since it would be big enough to take up a double lot but admits it would probably be an expensive house to build - in (Continued on page three) THE MORNING AFTER—The owners survey the damages after a barn fire on the farm of Jim and Brenda McIntosh early Friday morning In Tuckersmith township. A direct lightning hit Is suspected to have started the fire which caused over $100,000 In damages. Lightning in'100 000 am ire Tuckersmith and the loss of 400 plgy. The Mclntoshs, who were partly insured, (Photoont know w et whetherr they will rebuild. At 2 in the morning on Friday. Jini and Brenda McIntosh woke up because of the roaring electrical storm outside. They didn't get hack to bed that night. Two hours later they got a call that their barn at Lot 11, Concession 5 in Tuckersmith Township was on fire. "After the call. we looked out the window and we could see the glow from the fire. We figured there wasn't too much hope then," says Brenda McIntosh. The fire. which the Mclntoshcs and the Seaforth fire department suspect was started by a direct hit by lightning, caused over $100.000 in damage including the loss of the barn and the loss of 400 pigs of all ages. "That barn had been empty for two years. We just put pigs into it in the fall and they were just getting to the point when we could sell them. We lost all the sows. babies, weaners. and nearly marketable pigs," she says. The fire department fought the fire for approximately four hours and then left some men on the scene for three hours more in case it started again. Though the barn and contents were partly insured, you can never he insured enough. says Mrs. McIntosh. The fire started in the high old barn and spread into the new 5 -year-old addition to the barn, destroying it completely. Of three feed bins, one was damaged while the other two are all right. says Seaforth Fire Chief, Harry Hak. "We put a lot of work. new equipment and new machinery into that place and we're really disappointed. We're hoping to just bury the whole thing." Thc Mclntoshcs say they're undecided as vet about rebuilding. AAgricultural Society restores roundhouse g asked local people for opinions on whether the building should he saved. Thc majority who wrote letters to the editor said Yes. Others who favored retaining the original fair building near the new community centre include deputy minister of agriculture Duncan Allen. when he opened Seaforth Fall Fair last September. and Clare Westcott. the Seaforth native who runs the Ontario premier's office. Observant visitors to the new Seaforth and District Community Centres may have noticed something new at the nearby old roundhouse, owned by the Seaforth Agricul' lural Society. What's new is a cedar shake roof, the first step in the Society's plan to restore and refurbish the building. built about 1900. "The roof alone will cost about $8,000." says Ken Coleman, of the Society. Richard Bedard of Zurich, the lowest of four tenders, did the roof work. The building, designated historically and architecturally valuable several years ago by the town. will be eligible for a grant of up to $2.000 under the province's BRIC program. The Society also plans to install corner moldings. which wil! be of old style galvanized material, Mr. Coleman says and soffit. Last year the Agricultural Society w St. John Ambulance hopes for a revival /A3 Recreation conference called a good idea /A8 Storm damage here on the weekend /A5 Hensall senior's apartments nearly completed /A10 Births /A4, 13 Brussels news /Al2, 13 Classified /A14, 15 Community Calendar /A9 Dublin news /A4, 5 Entertainment /A7 Family /A6 Farm /A15 Hensel! /A10 Kids /A11 Londesboro /A5 Obituaries /A5 People /A7 Smiley /A2 Something to Say /A2 Sports /A8 Walton 1,412