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PLAYING BALLJ- 11 Muer. (left) 'and KIM.RiIey (right :of theSDHS
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girls' volleyball team, were. all,ready read,' for the ball in last' s game
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againstth'e Mitchell girls. The Seaforth seniors won three out of -'the
(Expositor Photo.
five games"against Mitchell,
PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITORS
students .who will be •competing in.
competition are (back row) Sandra Hunt,
Todd Doig • and (Front row) Michelle
McLtwain.and Mary Hunt.
The Seaforth Public School
the—Legion Public speaking
Kathy McGavinand alternate
Jones, alternate and ' David
(Expositor Photo)
While costs of• many'
items are comparable irk
Australia and Canada many
fruits and vegetables . are
cheaper here , terry tones:
told : 'Seaforth Lions club
members .MoidaV night,
Mr, Jones who is on an
-Australia•Canada •teacher
etehange with Sisk$ teacher
John Bali is slie tditfg a year
oti she :staff of'SDHs hent.
1-1e and his farnily vvIto have
been in Seaforth 'since late
last year are occupying the
Ball home on John Street.
t'sing an interesting,
selection of, slides Mr. Jones.
ite
indica ed the grow ti,_of_
Australia centres in recent
Years. Cannberra for
instance,' the city in which he
lives;has:grown from 30,000
in' the mid 50's to over
225.000 today. ' while
housing costs are
comparable/ Catiadi'atis
obtain' more since. homes.`
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here are larger and contain
certain mechanical
equiptnent which are not a
requirement in his country,
The'meeting•:was arranged
by Gordon and Robert
Beutenmilier and chaired by
Club president Gordon
..The '• :,e n,; c of brother-
hood is freedom of choice
RCN- ''obert ;Roberts, of
Fgn nit4tllie L-nitsd Church
told a. gathering which #'ilt,ed
the Seaforth :legion, t1'alt
Thursday ekenint .
The oti:casion was. the:
annual Brotherhood night
dinner sponsored' an turd
each year by Seaforth and
area Serliwe and fraternal
organsaattan This year. in
recognition, 44. the .lith
Annieer+,are of the foundingi
the event was sponsored `by
Seaforth Branch ISO Royal
Canadian Legion .wdi in
wvelc4iming the guests. legion
President George Miner • re-
ferred, to the Annoersarr
Can't xhatastl yotttr fattad�"•
You're 6tuek wide it, You can
ehottse to have nothing to do
with certain members of oaur
family; but tryy as you wits,
that person. be hip guQt ;or
*bad, if he's a member of your
fancily whether thr4'itth
;blood Or through 'law. that
person. is in a real Sense •a.
type of brother to eau :for ,as, •
long as yott both loc. YOU
.,apt not choose your fancily -
However. you can cheese
spur friends„ your brothers,
''Srotherhaod" impt res the
ideas of choke. 1can choose
whom I wish to be my friend..
1 can Choose with whom
awish to associate. And in
turn; if 1wish to as'stt1w„iate
event and programs that are rr ith you. taut y'uu ould
being planned for the year. rather not associate octet me;
Mr. Roberts was intro. that option is open to you
duced ley Mervin Nott and alsci•
appreciation v",:ts expressed We each .of , us have a
by Bill Wtlbee. Art series of choices to make in a
leNaughton thanked: the lifetime. We choose if we
Legion Auxiliary for its co- wish . to marry or remain
operation a.iid short program ,. single: However, there are
included. numbers by a* two things in life. at either
quartet ot. Marlin Vincent. • end of life, in: which we have
Keit Canipbell. George Ribcy • no choice, Those two ini-.
and Bill C ampbell and a peratives in our life are the
poem by Jaek Pickard. Jim actof bei,tg born and the act
Rosi was pianist. of dying, Not one person in
During dinner greetingss this room, not one preson
were exwndcd by Mayor the wwrld had the option of
John Simmeman and re. Mwhett hether or not he dished to
natives of organization'+' be born. Suddenly life was
poke incfuded Knights pushed P
:d upon you and as a
g p
�ilunb�c. Seamus, result
of thatyou have
the
A.ahi.rtt Britannia sonic ,.long.
list" f
;chaic
e5t
m
a
k
e
_Lodge.
,Dr _VY, Thompson:, throughout your life.: The
Seaforth • Liens, Gordon tither imperative in life is to
Rimmer; Seaforth Optimists,'. die. None of us here know
Larry Wesenberg; ` In- the exact hour of our death,
dependent Order of Oddfel- not its day; nor its year. And
rows: Lyle Haney; Malloch thank God we d'en't. Yet we
Chapter, Keith Sharp; :Loyal. • are all certain that we will
Orange Lodge; Ken Smith; • hate that fate waiting us at
Can itfian ,Foresters, :john sometime. Some day we 'will'
Thompson.
pre.04„
of
Rimmer.
Arrangements for the
Seaforth appearance of the
international Harvester Male
Chorus of Hamilton were
discussed by Bill Hodgert
who isheadingthe committee
in charge, The chorus of 40
vt5iees will • sing. in First
Presbyterian Church •Sundry.
evening April 8.
awakren never . to awake
again. Once death has re-
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Brotherhood . 4hey did not Choose quer-.their-pay. ..che:quos; they Conder of that�tind, of lreeiaL
Trio d ns front il,e world ins—which
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somewhere back It>t yo4tr this life,•decisions which ate to a .Country which; calf oti
familr:'s history someone de- •Meade and, which will T .affect' them had never :hoot ,of,
tided: to leave the country of •our, lifer lentil our life's end. y?, . they had.
Why?, Because
his or her birth; and And that is • exactly whys given tip their freedom of
emmigrate here to canon. 'tCvenitigs such as this .are set ch¢icf'. ,In return fora utopia
,Back in the* old countries, :Pp all over the place. It is a promised by Jim Jones, his
espeei,illyprior to the ,first visible sign for each of us followers, gave him the right
great oar; people were born; that, we enjoy �ach other s• to decide their lifer foiC'iherrt.
i d;but they' company. We wish to be with d. ,i h to this feeling ,of
and people. died; p Hol.... t o t h f e g
shad Wery few :Choices or One another. brotherhood here in this
deeistons to Make: in between • CANADA• , eommunfi,.y;. formean easily,”
g Pg..... en
those .two xeatevents vw'hich n t can: not s .eak for!Li; rest. altrtost averni ht be tae
• ntad a; ;mans hie. A woman of 'a.ni}da. l have not tle in. firom:you,
born" in Europe in the last, Canada long ..enough: to make There is the story told of a
century or the early part of .any. sort 9,UPinion. :But 10 protestant German living in
this century was ntoreor less 'nee, here •tn: this area of icermany in 19J4. He lived
designated' into a class from Canada, it would seem that through the hell of the Nazi
which heScould not socially we have c� rotherhood, regime, At the end of it, a
ti•forworking as well as it Might asked him why he
move. The alternatives a g g reportery
woman living in, say 'France.live
earth.did nothing. His. reply was
work any plan on I
in the last century born of . have the right to live where 1 that when Hitler first started
common folk were to either want, 'have the right to do taking away the freedom. of
marry, remain single, Or what I want, within the limits the Jews, it meant nothing to
perhaps enter a Convent. In' . of the law. So do you,. you " .him This German protestant,
the British Isles the options may be a farmer. or you may decided to say nothing for he
were the same, The woman• be a lawyer, or you may work was not affected. When
might -.take a 'position' in . in the ereantery, or you may Hitler sent for the Gypsies,
'service'; that is to say, that -'Bork for the township; or and the homosexuals and the
they might be someone's your. may not work at all by other minorities; he • said
maid or 'cook, And' a. man • entering the Ministry, The nothing; for his choice was to
born in the old countries .itt choice' is yours. Yon rna keep silent. When Hitler
the last century or the early assoicate with whom You began his campagin,. at the
part of this century had few want,. and you may also end of the war, against the
options or, choices to make. disassociate from.whom you Catholics, the German pro -
He was born into a family. do not like. Brotherhood' .in testant did nothing, for he
and would more than. likely its trueStt'orni may only be was not a Catholic. But when,
there aro the Wail of the Gestapo sirens
continue to the trade, which esta>alis,hed:hwhen`i uni hishis father and his grand -aspects wit it a ' m ty came.for next doer
neigh -
father had been engaged. in, for the freedom of Choice, 'hour, also a Protestant, the
i ,Options, -the However,. there are forces man could saynothing to
The chotc4s, the, ., t .g
decision -s; were ver • slim•, at work in the world today anyone; for there was no one
d t> y
our
••yid.robus of
:. which
wv teftHis tion a akin
t1e
that,places- 1s frs
as a es t f4
r 1 aa
and
p g
u�_Pp
are those
like FCanadaand The United .choices, There.out he had: given tq .Hitler.
States were a. haven for those who would offer us the - And in the end,. Hitler was
who sought a more myriad world; only if we'd give to his only option,
selection of options for their them the righ to our birth- There are organizations
life, right to make a choice. and: many political groups
And l: think that is quite Recently thishasbeen made which would have us to
understandable. None of us . violently clear: to us. The believe that they represent
like to - have things pushed Reverend James Jones of- true brotherhood. Just as
upon us. Your grandfather or fered to the people of his. Jim :Jones'::did in California
your father or yourself; none charge the choice of giving and',. Guyanna and as Hitler
of them like the idea of being over everything•to biro. And• and Mussolini did forty years
directed into ,a course of life • sadly, Many did. Thevsigned ' ago. Today there: are . the.
into, giving :away the =P�y
thing they real t have:, 1hei
right of armee,
Take care. Be ,prepat;ed.
You, have here'�brotherhoc4
lived out without• anyone's
options :or Choice$ denied:
them. Guard that Carefully,
for there are, thpse who
would take it flromyou•
The only way to Broca it
and preserve it is to re#Ily,'
-really. live brotherhood,:.T4.1.
live it every minute of every
hour of every day. And', !too,
by showing your concern for
those who have no options,
whose lives contain no hope
of ehoices.:1. think of the boat,
people living right now, this:
very minute on an island. off
of Malayasia in pitiable
conditions; for no
government is willing to use
its option to choose to bring,
them to their country. 1 guess
there should be . something.
'we' might do; . but un-
fortunately we seem always
to think that someone else
will do,;.it. I suppose that
some day we might consider
ourselves someone else and
do something.
The options are open to
you to live in brotherhood,
with free decision and.
choice, Guard it. well, for
here brothdrhoed lives' and
there are ntait who would.
Y �
love to come and share this
brotherhood with: you.,
o brothertto d.
Take your o ,,
seriously;, it not a light'' nor
vvhimsieal . mdtter; Brother -
hoed is not getting drunk
with your friend on Friday
night; but it is. the choice of
getting drunk, Brotherhood
is not remaining in one
community. for your entire
life; but it' is having the
choice to remain there.
Guard it well,:for there, are
those who would take it from
which we now live, we no So we all have choices in sold their homes; they mov d charisma which traps many yoU.
What does the. word longer have.the option of
Brotherhood really mean Mr. c}taicc. It is taken away! from:
Roberts asked his audience us. There are two poles in life'
and continued, altout' which ' we have no + .
I have no :doubt that it has '.° choice: death and birth.
something: to do with love Those two great events in
;and your neighbour; but let's • any person's life. namely life
just examine the word for a
and death, 'are two thirds of
second. Brotherhood. the comnion factors which all
At • face value, it men have. Every man in the :
seems that in order for us world, every woman in the
here to be a part of brother. world, every child ' in the
Wed we must firstly have a world has three things in
•brother. Well. I'm out of the .common: ' birth; death; and• . .
running for a start. I've no the period in between. birth
brother, -Brotherhood' 'is ?and death:: we all have our:
used metaphorically here to future °in common,
mean an adopted person,, not . •
adopted through law or Choices,
through baptism as in the ,
Church's sacrament; but Now all of us are living
adopted 'as a brother out cif' today .because of choice
your own volition out of your 'which other people made for
own desire; out of your own us. You. each and every One
wishes and wants. That's of you in this room tonight;
really, somhn; yu :`are ng 'mh,or.
think about it, Yoethingu w kneow totso:its suburlivib in SeaEgfyrthondvibecaeuse
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• Following the aaeetirtg
members spent an , hour,
;preparing Easter ' seat
campaign material' for
trailing. The annual crippled '.
Children's appeal, will get
underway on Monday.
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SEAFORTH MINISTER INDUCTED — The Vett C.R. (Eoh) Townshend„,
B.A., B. Th., Archdeacon of Saugeen (left) congratulates Rev. James R.
Broadfoot,, B.A., M. Div., Minister of St. Thomas Anglican Church,
Seaforth and St. Paul's Anglican, Clinton at s special indubtion service in
Clinton On Monday evening. (News -Record Phbtb)
The wedding of Glen Layton, Clinton and Carrie
Cudmore of London took place in Wesley Willis>
United church on Wednesday, January 31st,
1979 at 4 p.m. The wedding dinner was held at
the Albion Hotel -Bayfield. Guests weripresent
from London, Kincardine and Seaforth. (Mr.
and Mrs. Layton will reside at RR ,3, Clinton.)
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