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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-06-21, Page 3HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU - That's what Northside United Church Sunday, School wished ' :.Rev. J, Ure Stewart on his 97th birthday Sunday. Making a presentation to him are, from left, Brad Beuten,rniller, DavidMcLiWain, 'Mr, Stewart, Martin Andreassi, Jason Beutenmiller and Brian Underwood. (Photo by Wilma Oke). HensalI' fair has, great' i 1' i;th, year (Continued from Page' 1) second. Brian Faulkner won the 4-H Grand Champion placings were Heather Showmanship class, with Bill ' Kinsman Riddell, first, Brian Faulker, second, David second. Gill, third, and Scott Cooper, fourth. The pony pull, OId MacDonalds. Farm'; The 4-H Conformation and, Type class was and the midway were also lively events at won by Allan Pyrn, with Paul Hoggarth Hensall's Twilight. Spring Fair; Wintaro (Continued from ;.Page 1) Lila Storey, will perform. The New Canadian Klompen Dance Club will also be present, providing entertainment in the form of Dutch folkdancing, Local talent has been drawn from. Seaforth, McKillop, Brucefield and Tucker- ' smith. • The McQuaid sisters, a trio of young violinists, will be on sta8e. Greg McPherson will play the bagpipes while his sister Tracy, dances., The Town and Country Four will add to the varied •program their barbershop, quartet' made up of Marlen Vincent, George Ribey, Bill Campbell and Ken Campbell. Following the talent show there will be a, short intermission before the draw itself begins, The Wintario draw offers the regular 5 chances at $100,000 and a bonus draw as well for the eighth time in Wintario history. for 100 prizes which total $1,000,000. All Wintario tickets will. be .off sale late tonight Thursday afternoon. Senior citizens from the `area will be guests Thursday afternoon while drawing for the bonus winners takes place;' Wintario will host a `luncheon for the 200 senior citizens following the • drawwhich begins at 2 p.m. The. Lion's Club, as: apart of organizing the talent show, has been securing seating for the evening's crowd, which they hope Will number ;15.00, said Lion's past president. • Gordon Rimmer, The Lion's Club first invited the Wintario draw to Seaforth a year ago October. Irwin -, Johnston heads the committee which has been organizing the event., There has been a great deal Of cooperation from the people of the town, according to Mr. Rimmer. Different • organizations have .been helping' out and lending chairs and other facilities in order to make the event • • possible. For $2 a person, the Thursday evening is a bargain. You may even win a fortune. Expositor asks: Arc bicycles, a hazard in Seaforth and surrounding .communities? This week th.e. Expositor asked people if childrenrode safely on town streets. Mrs. Ed Chapel of Egmondville is afraid soineone will get hurt. She says kids ride up and down,. hills without paying attention to other traffic and .turn their wheels. dangerously while looking •over, their shoulder. Mr-s.,Cha el added d .ed that she did not like to see bicycles on the highway. Janet: Bannoreof Main St., Seaforth said, that some drive safely but others show off.: She also :mentioned that sometimes; they won't move off the road for cars, None of the peopleinterviewed had had any actual conflicts With bikers and Edwin Bennewies of Louisa, St. in Seaforth said.. that to his knowledge, "Kids are pretty good on bikes." : . Mrs:- Jack Lane who lives on Number 8. highway in St. . Columban says that although police bike. safety officers are good to come to the schools. sone children Are bicycles a hazard? continue to. disobey rules. Mrs. Lane doesn't know what has, to be done "to make it sink in. She said that even her own children often ride on the wrong side of the road. She doesn't think that accidents can always be blamed on the cars or that children are conscious enough of what they are taught. Bicycles, darting out: in front of cars are the biggest problem according to Mrs. Russell Kramp of Dublin. Mrs. Robert Caldwell onlY'...I cis her boys ride in the laneway e a of their home in Brucefield;' because the county road a they `liven i ` o s so busy. Mr. Sanders; of ..Raglana n u St. in Dublin finds that he often has to drive down the. middle of the .street ` to avoid cyclists who refuse to ride in single file. Groups of bikers who split up and ride • on both sides of -the 'st street are "a peril" for r Mrs.. Wm. G. Campbell of James St. in Seaforth. To.theedito:r, Thankyou The Huron Count Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society would like to express their •a reciation and gratitude to all'the. PP g residents, industries, business --firms and associations of your community who have contributed' so' generouslyto• the 1979 . Campaign for Cancer Funds.. The Seaforth Branch has attained the remarkable sum of SS,150.00. This achieve meet combined with the other four Branches of the Unit hasenabled the Huron Unit to reach a new high of 559,00000 A special thank you,goes out ea Mr. Bob' Spittal: and his fine team of helpers and' student's who have Worked long and hard to reach.. this goal. In so doing 8a si nificant contribution has been made to the fight. against. Cancer and. a. great ervice has been done for this comniuriity and for Canada. On behalf of the Huron. County Unit. please' accept our sincerest thanks for a. superb job. Respectfully yours; Canadian Cancer Socity,, Huron County -Unit, • Ross McDaniel, Campaign Chairman. • Jim Rcmmington, Campaign Vice-chairman Kidd family still honoured Aces copy of your newspaper of June 29, 1978 hes very accomplished so : p v ry well the account of he celebration of the Dublin Centennial (Issue of ThursdaY. June 29th), that I hope to be able to procure two more copies • from you' office at your earliest convenience, • Han. i i.... mhome i Hanging n is a copy of the Tait bf Jose h Kidd rt in frame which Po P filch measures twent • four by thirtysix lashes..,. Mymother's maiden name was i a s Jose fico„ Cecelia Kidd. She was p h as the thirteenthchild in tneVamily of fourteen children of Joseph and Sarah Moran Kidd. Fromthe time of her Marriage until her death she remained a loyal member of the Dublin, Canada, Kidds, In fact, whenever the ' isY ig T n of he Maple Leaf Forever, takes. ,lace We still. stand in honor ofa mother who ranked' With the geditest. While' she lived we visited Iiitblin' on many occasions. My late father's name was Matthew prank Kettein. Enclosed is my cheque for $3.'00 which .1 hope may cover the cost incurred Let me thank you for your trouble and wish you continued success Carryingi t in on your publication. My tocsin, Terence Kidd. of Toronto, sent to me thisnewS. My slaughter. Joan Aurelius Sullivan, of Madis` . Wisconsin, a on, has written r itch a genea- logical chart of the Kidd Famly which begins circa 1790 with the birth ofJohn Kidd in Yorkshire, who married Anne Doyle 'in Dublin, Ireland, They had three sons: John Thomas and rad Joseph and five or g six daughters whose names .loan was unable o discover: Should thegreat #, g amount of research she has done on the family of Joseph Kidd be needed by you, 'I ani quite sure that lshe would' be glad to furnish this to you. Very sincerely yours, , Mrs. Bernadette Kerwin Aurelius, 2107 Eleanor Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55:116 Som t by 'Susan. White f rR Macleans Mega- ziee that:* V,S, group ranks. farming in the top ten, stressful, occupations, I've suspected that you know, as 1 Watch; our neighbours, work Jong hours and worry about the Weather, the stock, the markets and the weeds. But it wasn't until .recently that I had personal experi, ence to draw on. A week ago Tuesday the better half and 1, city slickers if there ever. V":3C a"X' went Irate this business of farming, ""Well, I've got the chores done,' Andy said, saunter- ing into the living, room at 10. p.m. the first night, with a satisfied smile on his face. The chores being the care and feeding, but mostly admiring, of; the 25 baby chicks ("mixed" the box said, so don't ask me what. kind they are) be brought n►e� And So it goes all, day long. Furst thing in the morning he wants to, scan the chicken •.future's market in the paper. At noon'hour he camps out in :the Stratford library, reading every hook on chickens they've got We're subserib. urg to all the farm magazines although I told him Chickies Galore sounds more like a sexist skin magazine than a poultry monthly to: me. The baby's caught the chicken fever toe. She does her "how big are you?" act with reference tothem now and tells all the kids in the neighbourhood, her baby- sitter says,, that her little friends in the garden shed are getting "bigger and bigger." And while she used to chant "Daddy"` and het. dog's name riding home in the back of the car,, now all 1 Rev Ure Stewart B7( WILMA OKE The senior church sellout at Northside United Church baked a cake for the Rev. lyre Stewart Sunday for his 97th. birthday. A$p" well as the cake presented during the church school session, Brian Under- wood on behalf of his class presented Mr. Stewart witha plaque.';lee THE ,HURON wEXPO f I�TGB', .il bear le ,"ehtekens, •ehieleens„ and "Peep, peep,." And what are we going to do' with our feathered #'mends who are fast out: glowing their sun lamp equipped per in the shed? That's just what our neighbours wanted to. know when they arrived with their kids ,to see the baby Ads. "Are you :serious?" they kept saying, since the better half does have a fairly well developed, (and de- served) reputation as a prac- deal joker. Once they saw the physical evidence, they asked "What . are youu trying to3 do, 'pet Geordie Out of business?" Geordie is, 'tire gentleman down the lint w.he keeps the whole neighbourhood sup- plied with: eggs, and some- . mes ome-imes news. Our chickens are just for meat we assured them, and. honoured Mr. Stewart spke tothe class: about the founder of Sunday schools, He told them about Robert Raikes of Gloucester, England, a newspaper editor who gathered together the first group of children to teach them about the Bible and give deprived children from a, poor .district, a lesson in English,. n NE 21. ici.iTTe rs. as, soon € s they're seven or eight pounds they're headed for the freezer, That jai as long ,as, we can get them butchered somewhere ;and. we don't get too attached. Don't give them: narnes, one, of the books say, ,and that won't appen.' We' 1. deal with, that little problem. When we Conte to it,. 'but meanwhile, these :ch ck- ens have changed our lives, There's;the,hassle of lining up: chicken sitters • when you want to go away ,fpr the weekend, To say nothing of a two week stint in August when we were supposed; to. be going on holidays. It makes a person feel part of things in our neighbour- hood to have stuff like that to. worry about. We can drop farm related topics into, the conversation all the time now, "I've gotta no hotrt+a +fid' help Andy `6utid"' a chicken house," I told the &Is at work the other day. They scoffed that there are likely hundreds: of people who'4 sell chicken coops they no, longer want so we're holding; off con. strnction While we .look unto; that, But we didconstruct a .fenced in yard last night. And when We finished at dusk with me trapped inside the five foot heavy wire pen,. and the better half outside it and in control.. Of the ladder that the chickencaper took on a whole new dimension. I got out. (hatch,. writing this column), Does that mean, the chickens, will. too and we'll ° spend, the summer chasing them? Stay tuned. KINbERGARTEN ENTERTAINS • The kindergarten class of St. James entertained students; teachers and parents in an hour-long assembly Monday. The class consists of: Front Row (left to right) Debra White, Carol Ann. McQuaid, Tracey Bisback, Teddy. Sills; Second Behindthe. by Keith°Roulston Periodically we hear someone plead, "Please, give us aP olitician who tells it like it is" Given the state of the voter in western_countries these hese days the politician who tells it like it is is likely up to end : out on his ear. Ask Pierre Trudeau about' telling it.like .it- • is. His basket of election goodies was m rather e pry beside that of his opposition ecause.he " w b kne the country _couldn't afford more—The.. voters weren't so sure. ,; But more to the point: is the predicament of Jimmy Carter in U.S.1 _.. thesedays, All the polls say tht Carteris s indee trouble if he hopes .:to serve a second term as president. Carter is a man who helped engineer the Middle East peace settlement a move thatbrought him praise from around the world as well as in his own 'country. But peacein the Middle East isn't nearly as important as cheap gas in the gas tank to the average American. Take the present protests of truck drivers in the U.S. The drivers are irate and conductingblockades and even turning 8 to violence in some: cases because of the Problemsthey have getting diesel fuel in the quantity and at the price they feelthey need, They are demanding, nothing less than a return to the ood old days. They ones. Row Peggy -Ann Ryan., Jessica Mennelle, Paula MatthewS Tony. DeCorte, Shelle• Coughtry, Melissa Anderson, Kevin Dick. Third Row, Timmy. Nolan, -Shelley Nigh, Todd McLean, Tammy Nash, MikeVanLoon, Tracey Sills,: Kim' Sweeny, Michelle McCowan, • .PART TIME REPORTER Joining the Expositor staff .for part-time reporting this summer • is Jane Allan of'R.R.#1, Brucefield, a grade 12 student at C.H.S.S. in Clinton this past year. Jane is working full-time here until July when she will be attending summer -courses at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo. hao. She will continue write ue to w Ire ;for the Expositor ::on :weekends during the summer months. Jane enjoys working with people in Seaforth and.. • feels she is gaining valuable e experence' for a possible career in journalism. (Expositor Photo) Troth .and our politicians want Cheaper fuel and increased Speed p limits on highways. They are just thevoice for most Americans who feel; that have aright - to cheap fuelfor their big, powerful cars that can whip along the highways at high speeds, gobbling fuel at atrocious rates. When somebody like Jimmy Carter tells. them that theycan't o•onthat, he's g like not like l very popular y td be ry p .pu ar, When the price of gas goes up and. when .they find there just isn't anyas at the the • 8 pumps .y become more than ready to throw out the Y. man who warnedthe m .thin s� had'to change. 8 •• The speed limit situation in the U.S.. is a case in point. As one commentator' put it, the reduced speed limits in thelast P . few years have not only: conserved fuel, , but saves lives and reduced highway mainten- ance costs, yet one by one state govern-, ments have been passingbills to reinstate higher speed limits. You can get away with doing a lot of things s to an American but; B you can't mess around with his .rights to , drive big, fast, gas gobblers. Jimmy Carter is in trouble because he has had the nerve to telleo le that'they P can't go, on: , living the way "they, have. Americans can no longer snap ,their fingers Sugarand spice By, Bill Smiley Inti often glad. that I don't have four or. five daughters waiting. ixi the wings to be married, If I did I'd soon be in the. poorhouse, as we used to call it. Or on welfare, as we tall it now. Or mumbling my gums and my pension in one of those Sunset Havens, or another atrociously- named plaee for oldpeople who are b roke, This opinion is a 'direct result:. of three middle,class Weddings I have attended in • the Y past two ears, As an innocent P bystander. :1 am ' aghast.at the cost financia.le emotional, and stressful - f the Modern straight, or traditional wedding. It's not too many decades since you could' send your daughter off in fine style, _. for a couple of hundred bucks. Her reedier made her dress. The church and the prt were a "her :. ere frec. Yourented the rat community hall, and the ladies' Auxiliary h , o, hire re an catered the o fod" You, could a rehestra for $25. Mid you still had $50 left o tog ive the bride our daughter, Y $ ht tl nest egg. own wedding cost almost nothing.. Myo g t We dere 'Married in the chattel at .art ap ll H use U. . T. N o charge for the facilities. o s , sof Al h g it .. c''sfr(larcenywas Five lou k, o the preacher 1 `. 1 ..or... 1,. creeping n) The organist was a school. tea^ .aik44,,44414 4,, and expect the rest of the world to jump. The U.S. is still' powerful,but big guns and ships and planes don't rule the world these days. Economics is against the U.S.> 'It cannot supply,, its own energy requirements and the patsies whoonce gave away their oil so Americans could 'live their high life; the . Arabs and.' south Americans, have decided that ifeo a are going live high PP? to 88.g. because' of their oil then it Will betheir people, not the Americans. They're now bringing brin in billions into their own countries to help their own people and telling the Americans • they'llhave to• conserve more. There was a time when the U.S. could• have solved such a problem. It would' have found some excuse to move the troops into "rescue" some of these countries and protect Americancheap fuel supplies. Those days too are gone. The blunders „of. he Vietnam war have made Americans much more careful about throwing military. might around. Carter has been more respectful of the rights of other nations' than any president inrecent memory something that might fnd himfriends in other countries but net in his homeland. The trouble is that the world is changing and we in North America don't set the rules any more. We've got so used to being, able to call the shots that.: we could use more than twice as much petroleum per .. capita. as Europeans. We've got so used to prosperity based on cheap fuel that we expect our standard of livingto increase each and every •year. We expect full employment nomatter what the circum stances;' and' we expect cheap prices, for fuel, food and the necessities of life so we can spend our money . on the luxuries. When things don't work out that way, we get upset. When some politician, tells us that it is we who have to change, not the. rest of the • world, then we shoot the messenger who brings the bad news. Pierre Trudeau out:when n he told Canadians that they would have to • reduce. their expectations. Jimmy Carter is finding out with his warnings ov( energy con- sumption, Joe Clark will find out when he tries to deliver some of his• promises after telling Canadians Trudeau was wrong in saying that, we couldn't go on living as we had become accustomed. The rules have changed and like it o ,.. g r ,not, we'll have to change with them, But if you're a politician be smart and don't tell anybody the real truth. It was: .a.•• lovely wedding mate who played in u burlesque house, se ne fee. Borrowed a car from a friend for the honeymoon; S20. My wife bought,a suit and her own wedding ring. I had supplied a diamond, courtesy of a friend who had been jilted, at half price. Na. ushers, no reception, no drinks, The best an and the maid of honour got a kiss. And away we went, just as married, with the same words (and still' married), as the modern bride whose old man has forked' but a couple of thousand minimum, whose mother has been. brought to the verge of a breakdown over the invitations, Orestes hair -dressing; and a hundred other details, "who is herself ever-increasing demands of herposition as the bigdayapproaches'. , pP With myown daughter. I was'crafty. 1 g ,ty asked her whether' she'd like a church Wedding and the usual reception, or a cheque for one thousand, A chip off the old block, she opted for the cheque, knowing she'd't ` she wanted i . get the other. too, ifa 1 squeaked in just under $1500. She invested the Cheque hi a car, which she totalled in a rollover on their honeymoon. oon. Ym No pun intended. • At4 , a moderate arcountmg, today� dad is going for at least twice that before he sinks into his 'chair; on, Sunday night with a "Thank OW. 'sallover." On ;second thought, $3,000 is modest, the way today's middle-class wedding has built up its .hidden costs, It's $25 for the preacher, unless he's lost his dog -collar or been disbarred, )Ditto for 'the organist. Gowns for the bridestnaids, add $300. A ' donation to the church for the oil heating, Fifty bucks for invitations. Five hundred minimum for new duds for him and the old' lady. A "little" going.away cheque for the; bride, another five hundred. He's Op to nearly fifteen hundred before e th. "Dearly pr„*cher has even said, beloved, we are gathered here today..., if he s a real big-time spender, he picks up the tab I for the motels at which guests who have come from afar' at great trouble and ,. ex ensclaytheir well-coiffed heads. P Then there's the open bar at the reception, the dinner with wine, the p , • orchestra or disc' jockey for dancing, the aen'baragain, p the towing charges for guests who mistook the ditch for the road! on the way home, Call it fifteen hundred.• Of course, tncrc are compensations, With a big wedding like this, the bride receives about font thousand dollars worth. ofifts. "Isn't tiit obscCttC'I" y risked the bride's father at our latest, as We ooh -gid and aah-ed over the loot. It was, but that doesn't do the old man much good. However. 1 guess it's all worth it. A daughter, especially an only daughteris a gift from heaven. This last one was a lovely wedding. And •i don',t use words like "lovely" casually, '., Kevin MacMillangrandson of Sir Ernest. MacMillan, one of Canada's great men of music,married i c*:rico Anne:Whicher, 18, whom I have known since she came home from the hospital in a. pink blanket. They are very young. Good. Both deep ;into music. We had a beautiful Ave' Maria sung i. by Cousin Kathy:, .and an excellent string ensemble, before the wedding and during , ._ •.i that interminable tme when they are <signing the register, and during dinner. Class, Anne was kissed and cozened by .doteris. of cousins, armies of aunts, and hordes of hooligans, like me, She took it in her Stride, at she will life: For my wife, the wedding was a chance to gabble at S00 words per minute, with old friends from school days. She loved. it. For me, it was being assaulted by large ladies of indeterminate age who still B , flasthad that elusive beauty, , fairly well 'camou- flaged, and i o f twenty years ago,, and who still. thought 11 torrid : dance till daWn.1 loved it. Good wedding. 44 1.•mak ,;,,W>,�"