HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-08-09, Page 3A BIG BANG -Jim Sills of North Main St, and daughter Tracey take a look.
at the_ #rte outside: their family home which was struck by lightning
during: Tuesday's suppertime storm. Power was off in another section of.
town for several hours, A. tornado, hit Woodstock south of here at about:
the :same time and did an estimated' billion dollars damage.
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No deCisionT;Ofl.dUrnpiflg
[BY WILMA OKE1'
McKillopTownship
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council will make no decision
on •a request from ' Kenneth
fr
Campbell and Arthur Bolton
odum P ::residue from a
g grain
Mining plant at the Walton
dump until a discussion has
been held with officials from
Grey and Morris Townships
who share the site.
Marion McClure,
Clerk-treasurer,will attend a
seminar'. for municipal
treasurers on September 19
and 21:
Passed for payment ,we e
road accounts amounting to
$40,599.39 and , general
acco nts, -f S61 .58.
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Discussion on drains and
the possibility of buying or
P tY y
rentinggrader took u
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most of council's time. No
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oil
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A Monkton Woman
escaped serious injuryafter
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an accident near Walton
Sunday morning at 9:45.
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Brenda G.:. Ward; of R.R.
2, Monkton • was travelling'
west on County Road " 25,
when a car driven by. James
A. Lunn of Seaforth, north-
bound on County Road 12,
made a left time.
Hullett
a f.arniI'
decision was made about the
grader.
The a ernoo meeting
ft n
was adjourned at 5:22 p.m:
unaa
y
The vehicle driven by
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Brenda 'Ward travelled: into
the . ditch as the driver
• swerved to avoid a collision..
The car rolled over,
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Police e_000 to the
d*timate thedarn'''.
age at '$
..1, a Ward
car. No damage was sus-
tained by
ustained'by the Lynn vehicle as
no actual collision• occurred.
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don't even hear the wind, and it's easy, to
Maintain and heat. '
Standing on the main floor, looking out:
the large patio' doors and down on the
lawn, you do, feel secluded, 'safe. The
furnishings are' warm, and: lovely, with:
burnished antique wool :and. 'flourishing
greenery:,
.Some of the renovations the Pattersons
completed themselves, for other work, they
hired help. Inaddition to the upper deck,
they have a °ground -level patio, shutters
and window boxes.
They recently returned from a trip out
west, but have no • need for, a cottage or
other quiet retreats; The schoolhouse home ..
provides its own peace. "We don't need to.
B et awayfrom • the mad rush," said', Mrs.
Patterson.
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weightlifts Mr two hours a ,`day. Now, he
works out with the weights for a half-hour to.
an hour.
"Youdon't notice:; the minutes tick away
• heen you're out there killing yourself," he
Thesecond rneet was held in Angiers, but
15 to 20 events were not scheduled,
including shot, said Johnny, So. the
Canadian team . ran their own competition,
and' Johnny threw against his teammate.
Johnny threw a personal best --15.97
meters --with the 16 pound shot puts
The teamthen travelled to England by
ferry, spending the night in London. By bus
they went to Wolverhampton, where
workouts were held, and later, the meet
against the Italian and English teams took
place:
Johnny placed third out of six competitors,
and was beaten by two Italians. One, of them
he said, probably ranked as the 'thirdor
fourth best thrower in the world. The first
place competitors threw 17,18 meters;
Johnny threw 15.49 --the same distance he
threw in Vancouver.
` After staying on for a few morn days, the
team flew back to Canada from noon.
"It's always good to be back" ; he said,
though he made new friends from the team
members, half of whom he had already
met.
Johnny`expressed his special thst%ks to the
Seaforth ,branch of the Royal 'Canadian
Legion and the Optimist Club for'aponsoring
hint for part of the expenses of the trip. He
also extended "lots of thanks( to Terry
',Johnston (his coach in Seaforth) for the last
five y'eittyt of hitt hard work and 'dedication."
Johnny's next Meet is Aug. 19 in Toronto,
a peovit ceii 1de competition in which he hu
emu
to thsOw in the senior division,
S4rneiIiing tto.soy
bX `Susan Whltr>
There are at least .two
schools of thought about
picking beans.
.the one 1 adhere to holds:
that you pick only the a nice
young, small, sweet ones,
because they taste the best
and freeze the best. But this
isn't as simple as it sounds
because by the time I get
around to serious picking in
my bean rows, the plants are
weighted down with eight
inch wonders and small.
beans arefew and far
between, But I find ahem„
pick them and berate myself
for not attacking the rows:
sooner, Oh. the waste of it,
The bean: picking school;
that a family member who
shall remain, nameless
adheres to says that you,
denude bean plants when.
you pick them. You 41m, 'gal
all, big ones that this person.
admits may be getting a. bit
tough, along with the small
sweet onesiand you put them
all in one basket. This school;
of bean picking owes, a greet
deal to the depression. Yolk
know, waste not. want not,
This has caused no end of
argument at our house, as.
yours; truly who usually gets
the crop 'ready for the freezer
sorts. through the six quart'
THE HURON EXPOsTo.R, AUt u$T s
baskets of beans separating:
mv.,s•'tze of beans (editor's,
note: the good beans) from,
the toughies. "Yeah, but
they snake really good stew"
I get told, ''Or how about
freezing them :fo;s' 1!e)low
bean soup?"
After long thought and
years of experience amongst
the: bean rows, I honestly
believe my method is best.
It's like my late lamented.
Uncle Jim used to say when
his wife was about to put a
dish of leftoversin the
fridge; "Do we throw it out
now or store it in the fridge
for a few days and then throw
Re.m;eni
ging
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BY W. G. STRONG
When certain senior citizens pick up a
pound of butter at the supermarket. they
may recall, nostalgically, the • delicate
flavour of the butter made from their own
cows for many years.
Churning day. usually' began the night
before when the can of cream was brought
up from the damp, cool cellar to the
warmth •of the kitchen so that it would
properly sour at room temperature. The
churn had to be brought infrom the shed..
Actually the process began some time
before that when the cows were milked by
hand in the byre, Each morning and
evening the pails of warm milk were:
carried to the house and down cellar where
it was carefully strainedthrough the
strainer pail into the shallow milk pans and
allowed' to cool on the cellar, floor or local
shelves: There had to be two sets of pans,
one to hold the morning yield, theotherthe.
evening Each time the cream had to be
skimmed off anddumped into the cream
can, the milk carried to the piggery and the
pans washed
SCALDING. WATER
When churning time came. scalding
water was poured into the dasher churn,
over the dasher, the wooden butter bowl,.
the ladle,•the lid and the print. In due time
this :was'poured off and rinsed with cold
water. Then the sourcream was poured
into thechurn and the dasher and lid
assembled. Then the monotonous task of
churning, began.
Sometimes 'newspapers
were spread 'oti.
•thefloor to catch any spatters, of cream.
which might be spread around as the
dasher plunged up and. down. Most folk
liked, to sit on a high: stool to operate the
dasher h r w title (Alma •preferred to stand. In
due time you could hear splashing Sounds
as the- dasher worked its way through the.
-thick contents. Then the dasher began to,
move more leisurely as the butter began.. to,
form as. evidenced;': by the little :golden.':
flecks which gathered on the dasher handle
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it out?"
Yes dear reader'Vd rather
discard oldtough bean; right
In the garden or even leave
them on the bush; than dog
what that other person, woe
fancily promotes. That is to
pick all the beans, spit
them, cut, blanche and
freeze theist. and then throw
them out in January. Or
February 'cuz they are just
too tough.
Gardening, as you have
gathered, is guaranteed 'to
promote family harritony and.,
peace. And we've got 12
quarts of beans, the, small,
sweet kind, in the freezer to.
prove it.
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Unless l can persuade
Lise or Alice to write two
columns a week while :I'm
away, which they could do
quite capably though they
won't admit it, this space will
be vacant for two weeks.
Andil do mean vacant. For
the last couple of years when
I've been on. vacation my
friends who lay out this
paper have amused:
themselves; by finding,
outrageous ,b illustrations to
head up this column,
illustrations'which, give thein
ideas on what I'm up to on
holidays. We've bad a crazed.
looking character with a'
suitcase and a tennis racket
in this space, And a cruise
ship. too.
And I've been embarrass-
ed to open the paper to see
what they've done to me. But
I'm fixing, them. About six
other people are on holidays
when I am so those left
behind will be too darn busy
for any hanky panky with
illustrations, Just to male
sure, I'm taking the book
they get allthose gems from
with me. There's nothing like
an ad illustration book for,
baby to colour while we're at
the lake,
See you at the ;end of the.
Month
The, H PPY .Cf t hen* going
on the bus trip. to Caledonia:
area and Hamilton meet at
United Trails Depot (Flab
kirk's) Thursday. Aug. 16th
at .8 a.m,,
For the August meeting of
the Seaforth Women's Insti-
tute .members are invited to
tour the milking parlour at
Eckerlea (Eckert) Farm at .7
p.m. August 14. Then to the
home of Mrs. Gordan Papple
for the remainder of the.
meeting, Roll call, your
favourite milk recipe and
bring a copy for exchan8e.
and were brushed affoo the hole in the lid,
At this time operations began to slow down
to allow the little bits of butter to gather.
By lifting the lid one could tell by the size
of the globules when the operation was
nearing its completion, Even the dasher
knew -as it sought to rest on the thickening
surface. The cold water was poured out of
the butter bowl and the butter was scooped
out of the churn with thebutter ladle.
. Sometinies the liquid, contents were
strained through .cheesecloth to separate
the small particlesfrom the resultant
buttermilk.
BUTTER WORKED
The butter had to be worked with the.
ladle to remove any excess of fluid and salt
. .
added. in winter it was often necessary to
drop in some colouring matter in order to
produce normal colour. In early spring
when the cows wereallowed to pasturein
thewoods, there was the danger of certain.
wild herbs adding a distinctive and often
unpleasant o a t lea flavour
to the flutter, In the'..
dandelion season there seemed to be an
excessof colour, In early winter when'. the
cows were stabled and fed a ration of
pulped field turnips another flavour' was
evident. After the butter had been:
thor-
oughly workedto remove surlus liquid the
mass was packed in an earthen pottery
crock with appropriate lid and handle and
put down, cellar. At times the butter was
placed in wooden frames or prints which,
were supposed to hold a• .pound. If the
butter were to be sold and exact pound was,
weighed : out then: pressed firmly into the
print so asto remove' any air spaces. Many
prints had fancy patterns carved in the top
add a distinctive
totouch. Forth
Yars e
farmer's wife sold her butter to ctis omers
in the town or village or to the local grocer ..
asbarter forneeded household supplies.
In due time the barrel churn supplanted
theold fashioned dasher type, but manual
power to operate the contrivance persisted.
BY W.G. STRONG
"All the world's a stage
And all the men and wom69 rnerolyplaStrs;
They have their exits and their entrances
And tine man in his time a plays many parts."
Shakespeare
The writer was eminently sound in "As
You Like It" in telling us that life is 'full of
exits and entrances, the closing of doors and.
the opening of doors. All of life• .is a
succession of closing of doors, each :'accomp-
anied by mild,. alarms. This, .is true in our
emotional life as well as where our 'physical
cipacities are concerned:.
pFollowing an
accident. or a heart attack, • a series of
.effortless actions assume new proportions.
Simple exertions which were once consid-
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walking, so normal, that we scarcely .were:
aware of them, become infinitely precious. A
door has been slammed between us •and.
them..'.
Most of the time, however, life ,is closing
doors behind us so softlythat scarcely
hear the lock snap. The gracefulness with
which we accept this is the measure of our
maturity. ln'the quest for maturity, we often
attempt to retrace our steps down
corridor of time in order to reopen the Boors
of the past.Perhaps
the urge is strongest.
when life becomes complicated and per-
piezing. ..and we want to relive earlier
experiences but we find that we cannot
"pick the 'locks of the doors that have
closed on our yesterdays.
A Jewish writer once uttered this brayer,
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"Open to us a gate at the time a gate is
closed." The author of this prayer under-
stood one of the basic truths of our spiritual
life. Godnvto
never closes a doorinourlives
i s.
without, atth
e samtime, opening n another.
When
When one area of life is sealed off to us,
anothercomes intoview. To havefaith in
Him means, among other things, to believe
that the door He opens leads us to a stageB .of
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life with its own 'satisfactions and delights,
new challenges and, rich adventures. As our
physical powers diminish, added time and
energybecome available for life's less taxing
g
but no less rewarding activities. We have
more rime to reflect, to study, to cultivate
new friendships, toelevate our souls to get
to know, ourselves better.
We should
always be
grateful for
r His
great mercyin constantly closing
and
opening doors for us.
"..
I pass this way
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But once and then no more;
But u once and thenthe silent door
Singsits in
on hinges, . .
Opens, closes, and then no
more
I pass this way.
So, while I may,
With all my might
I will assay
Sweet comfort and delight
To all I' meet upon the pilgrim way
For no man travels twice
The great highway
That climbs through darkness
Up to light, through night to day."
Oxenham;
Five Seaforth and area men: were charged
with mischief last weekend following a
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:testing himself against the best in Canada.
His. last 'meet of the year will be in
Tillsonburg on Aug. 27 where the 'London'
Western Track Club will compete against
other clubsin Ontario at the :League Cup
Final.
He will train indoors at the 'Thompson
arena hi London this winter as he completes.
Grade 13. •
He's shooting for the 1984' Olympics. ,To
qualify, he explains, you must throw 19.4
meters. He hopes to be able ,to. throw 'that
far, in three years, Johnny has another year
in the junior division, but many shot putters
don't hit their prime until they are 25 or. 30,.
he said. He'd like to be the best, he said;.
"but that's a long way away."
"There are guys out there at ISO pounds,.
lurkingraround," he said.
Mr, Johnston and U.W.O coach Bob
Vigars have been helping Johnny to reach'
his goal. He has already been offered one
scholarship from an American University,
and is hoping for another offer from
Washington University. He plans to Study to
be a physical' education teacher, and keep
practicing his throw"
Scholarships from Canadian universities
are few and far between --too few and far
between to allow an aspirin ... athlete to stay
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on his home soil. He would consider
Western. University in London, though,,
because Mr. Vigars is there, he said. •
Johnny', , the son of Mt, . and Mrs, •!'van
Nielsen, has three brothers, Dennis, and
twins Tony and Eddy. Dennis is presently
away ati, tarso Athletic LeadershipCamp
for two weeks, Hes a good hockey la er,
sold Johnny, and this Septeinberwill try out
for the North Bay team. His 17 year old
brother is also a good golfer.
Johnny, had been working,,' toward' his
recent trip for three veers.' He it new setting
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after c
bizarre chase which occurred at approxi-
mately :1 a.m. Friday morning,
new goals, The Canadian Interscholastic
Record, set in 1976,
is 19.25 metes with the
12 pound shot. This year's best for Johnny is
18.65. Next vear. he wants to break that
record, and he will, he said, if he' works
hard.
"When I stop improving, 8 .I might as well
give it up," said. Johnny.; ;
RETURNS
._. FROM EUROPE -- Shot-putter Johnny Nielsen is back from
compettitOn
in England'and France, surrounded' by his twin brothers,
Eddy (let)'and
Tony..
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Sparks start two wheat fires
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burned, but
no dol
lar and centsloss ftas yet
been calculated.
The alarm Was answered by hoih the
Bruc truelis:
This efield and Hensail ,'fire trucks: 'this
second blaze was also extinguished within
an hour,
Both fire departments did a'WOnderfui ob
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Said Mrs. Dell, who expressed her thanks to
them.
A second truck owned by Grant McGreg or
of Ras .R.3, Seaforth Wburned is :the Tire.
The vehicle, left idling, caught fire from the
sparks.
Five or six people, all of the St. Marys
area, were pursued through Mitchell area
back roads in their Ford by a group of men in
another' auto: •
The chase began. on Highway'8 east of
Dublin and ended at Highway 23 south, of
Mitchell when thevictims abandoned their
car. When they returned; the car's interior
was on fire.
Constable ;Randy McLeod of the Sebring-
ville vilie provincial police refused to identify the
victims because they are afraid of retali-
ation. ,
• Sebringville police' were notified of the
incident at 2:05 a.ni. Friday, and told local
television and radio stations that they were
looking for the pursuing vehicle, a Grand
Prix. , •
The police received an.. anonymous phone'
call Sunday morning. The caller reported.
that a car answering the description was in
' .the Seaforth area, said Constable. McLeod.
Goderich ` provincial police <checked the
address given by the caller and found the
vehicle:
Seaforth officers assisted the OPP in
locating the youths who' were subsequently
interviewed and :formall charged byCon-
stable McLeod. 1,
There was nont'
apparent. motivation for the
act, said a Sebringville officer,` and neither.
group knew each 'other.
Charged are Randolph Stewart Scott, 19;
Rickie Laverne Dalrymple, 18,, Clayton
Ronald Geddes, 17, Bradley Wilbert Glan-
ville, 17, and Kenneth Thomas Nigh, 20, all
of the Seaforth area. • ;
Bdijndthe scenes
by Keith Roulston
Continued. from Paget,)
• ance of a play of mine recently said to
herself: Lord, not another play about small
town politics. She Was right of course. It's
all been said before:
Yet the thing about most cliches is that
they are eternal truths,: They May be
Aeries told a thousand times but Usually
they've happened a million times in real.
life. One of the most common eriticis _ ms
I've received over the°years as a writer is
that my characters are stereotypes (that's a
walking, breathing cliche). To sone people
1es
gu s they are. On the outer hand, nearly
every One of the* stereotypes was based
on a real person. that I've met over the
years in the variotts animal towns in this Part
of the country`. The etta raed a bit
They're: gem t
'for the sake of comedy perhaps, but they
started out as real people.
The problem is that we have dealt 'With'
fiction on television, and in movies and.
books for so long that sometimes it's hard
to separate out what is real and what is the
Dopy. Does art imitate life or does art
imitate art? Sometimes when 1' get such.
criticism 1. find it hard to figure out myself
whether my characters are original or are
shaped through the vision of too many
stereotypes of Small town people ;perpetn,
ated on the television screen.
The nice thing about writing for theatre
however is that you have the real final.
judge right in front of you: the andience.
Someone phoned the other night to tell me
how much they had enjoyed my play. "You
know," she said, "we.didnwt realize'untit
we got home that all ,those characters(,
reminded us of people we had "
.. k?tiot�t,
' The cliches and stereotypes May, not be
new, but they're still true, 1 guess I'll soot,
with them.
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