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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1966-03-24, Page 99 4 4 • a r 0 r•-•' SEAFORTH SEPARATE SCHOOL recently completed the annual public speaking competitions, when 16 contest- ants took part. Here, Leon Bannon, secretary -treasurer of the board, presents awards to the successful students; (left) Bob Eckert, Doug Reynolds, Margaret Eckert and Jean Dev- Advance Plans for Swine Club Series This year's 4-H Swine Club program will get under way' on Thursday, April 7, at 8:30 p.m., in the Board Room, Ontario De- partment of Agriculture, Clin- ton. Young people between the ' ages of 12 (as of Jan, 1.; 1966) and 20, who are interested in joining, should get in touch With their township hog produc- er director. • • This year gilt club members are to purchase a pair of pure bred gilts of their breed choice. . These pigs should be born be- tween March 1 and May 1, 1966. They will keep records of -cost of production and attend month- ly meetings where they will•stu- -dy swine husbandry during the summer months. A Senior 4-H Market Hog Club will be offered in the 1966 Hur- on County 4-H Program. Mem- bers are to be 1.6 (as of Jan. 1, 1966) and must not have reach- ed their 21st birthday (by Dec. 31, 1966). Members will select, feed and ,,market a group of, not les, than five market hogs: Other clubs -4-H Calf, Trac- tor, Grain, Corn and Conserva- tion Clubs "will be' organized during Easter holidays, April 11 to 15.Juniors are asked to check the "Huron County Soil and Crop New,s" and The Hur- on Expositor for advertisements concerning "the organizational meetings. BRODHAGEN NEWS OF THE WEEK Mr. and Mrs, Gerald Dittmer and family, of Kitchener, visited Mr. and Mrs, Jonas Dittmer re- cently. Flowers were in the chancel of St. Peter's -Lutheran Church ,on Sunday from the funeral of Mrs. John Hinz, •Sr., Sebring- ville. • Music pupils of Mrs. Audrey Vorstenbosch, of Mitchell, who teaches piano at the Commun- ity Hall here, were.. successful in their recent p,iano examina- tions, namely: Grade 8, _Bever- ley Sholdice; Grade `6; Larry Murray; Grade 4, Faye Drum- mond, Kathy Leonhardt, .Neil Murray, Shirley Gloor; Grade 2, Catharine 'Murray and Valerie Drummond. . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mose, of Milverton, visited .with Mr. 4' • and Mrs. Russell Sholdice on Saturday and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schell•enberger, of Mitchell, at the same home on Sunday. Mr. and 'Mrs. Ed Oliver and .family,' of Stratford, with Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Wolfe on,Sun- day. • Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Beuer- man, of Landoll, with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs.. ,Manuel Beuerman on Sunday: Mrs. Ray Beuerman, Michelle, Michael and Scott,, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Short - reed,. Walton. Mrs. Edith Beuerman, of Sea - forth, spent ''a week with her sister, Mrs.• Henry Diegel- and Mr. Diegel; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crossan, of London, and Mr. -and Mrs. • Norval Elliott, Stpffa, also with their . parents. Mrs. Charles Ahrens visited 1 1 �. Y .0 last week with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ahrens, Burlington. Mrs. John G. Hinz, Hamilton, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Ah- rens spent the weekend at the same home, Mrs. Ahrens re- turning home with them. Miss Virginia Leonhardt, who underwent an operation at Sick ,Children's Hospital, London, has returned home. She is the daughter of Mr. and ,Mrs. Mer- vyn Leonhardt. Mr. and Mrs. Don. Staudt and Janet, of Kitchener, with her mother, Mrs. Albert Querenges- ser. Roger Sholdice, Orillia; Clay- ton and Robert Ahrens, London; Kenneth. Ahrens, Hamilton; Clare French, Petrolia; Jane Rock, Waterloo; Phyllis Hinz, London, and Leonard Miller, of Kitchener, at their homes for the weekend. • Smile of the Week During a blizzard a clerk step- ped outside the store and, saw an elderly gentleman poking with his cane into the -piled-up Snowbanks at the curb. ,Assum- ing• the man to be blind, the clerk offered his assistance. "Can I help you across .the street?" he wanted to know. "No thanks," replied the pok- er. "I'm looking for my sports car." In 20 years Canada has gain- ed 2.5 million immigrants but lost one million emigrants, ereaux, and receiving the trophy, Hank Groothius. The death of a member of the school staff resulted in the post- ponement of the contest so that it was not possible for the students .to take part in the Legion -sponsored event. (Expositor photos by Phillips). AREA PUBLIC SPEAKERS competed for honors at the Legion Hall last week when winners were selected to take part in the Legion district competition. Arranged by Sea - forth Branch 156 of the Canadian Legion, the event attracted contestants from Seaforth and McKillop schools. The com- SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1966 — Second Section, Pages 9 to 16 linters at Cape.,Dorset: Long, Long Nights., can A former ,beaforth town clerk, Lyle Hammond,.strice early last year, has been on the staff of the Department • of Northern Affairs at Cape Dorset, in ,the Northwest Territories. • In a recent letter he describes winter conditions at Cape Dor- set and in a covering letter Mrs. Hammond says: "Even since the date of Jan. 14 which is mentioned, the days have progressed so quickly that today the sun actually shone over the top bf the eastern hills at 8:30 a.m. The, wind is not even stirring and I wish I could impress on you just how beau- tiful the scenery is. The smoke from all the chimneys of the little houses is going straight up; the sky in every direction is briIIiant blue; the snow is not too glaring, and there is' a good combination• of sunshine and shadow for the land is hilly and the sun's -rays so slanted. The temperAtnre is 35 below. "I am hurrying to get this finished as once again this is the day the mail plane is due. Tonight •the living room of ev- ery white person will look the same—mail all over the floor. Once ag::n we will lay The Ex- positors all in .a row and then try to decide whether to read the last one first, or the first one last!" WINTER AT CAPE DORSET By Lyle Hammond Today, January 14, is the day the sun carne back. For five fleeting minutes, right at 12 o'clock, it peeked over the top of the hills at us for the first time since it disappeared last November. In this respect we are very fortunate that our house is perched on high bluffs allowing -•us ---t catch these' first welcome rays, for it will be many days yet before the rest of the houses in the 'settlement below us wi I be. bathed in sun- shine. ' What is commonly referred to as the "dark period" was not a. particularly depressing time we found, for .even though. the sun was absent;.there was nev- er total darkness. Mid-day, ev- en on December 21st, was road daylight, though electric lights were necessary -till 10 a.m. .and by 3 p.m. the stars were again shining. Long-time residents told us when we arrived that time pass- es very quickly here, and we are proving to our own satis- faction that ' this is so. 'Tlid months of, July and ' August, when spring, summer and :au- tumn quickly followed one af- ter the other, were monfhs of interesting activity. Planes, supply ships, the hospital ship, visitors (including a polar bear which wandered into the set- tlement but was never given the chance to wander out again), long hours of daylight when the children seemed never to go to bed, a sudden snow storm, boat rides out into t-Iudson Strait—these are but a few of the, features of those pleasari,t weeks which passed so quickly and abruptly ended on Sept. 19, when we ,awoke to find the ground covered in snow. Ten days later' the short skating season was in full swing on the ponds. By this time the last plane of the -season had tome and gone and except for a short visit from one last ship, out settlement was cut off from the outside world till November 24, when small planes started to return and land on nearby lakes. But it was not till five days before Christmas that the ice on the bay itself reached a thickness of 24 inches as re- quired by the mail plane, 'a D.C. 3. With what gladness this long-awaited mail was received! The .. highlight of November was our move into a brand, new home, Situated approximately 70 feet above the sea level and perhaps a quarter of a mile back from the, ,bay, the house boasts a. magnificent view in all directions. The living room windows, 12 feet •wide and reaching to. the floor, overlook the bay and the distant hills can.be seen from the other win- dows. , The number of rooms in the house would need some explan- ation for there is a food. stor- age room, cold snow porch and utility room, as well as theus- ual living room, dining room,. kitchen, three bedrooms • and bath (minus flush, toilet but in-, eluding a vanity). Furnishings are ,brand new and of the fin- est quality, The, layout of the heating system is such that there is variety in the floor— doWn one step -into beilrooins and living room and up three steps to the bath. Incidentally-, the house 'is a warm one! • Would you exchange your us- ual Christmas celebrations to attend • dog team races? We would.. much rather have been with our families on that par- ticular day but as this was im- possible, dog team •races it was. The extreme cold down on the bay brought out several cari- bou -clad Eskimos and their ap- pearance added to the picture of the dogs harnessed "fan" style, the laughing drivers with their `long', hand -made komatiks and — what ••are those other things in the line up? Why, ski-doos, of course! They are in the race too, an indication of how the past is blending with the future. At the signal "they are all off, down the bay, out of sight Around a distant island, back again amid the cheers of the onlookers. The dogs roll over and over and bite at the snow to quench their thirst. "-Everyone adjourns for lunch and in the afternoon a foot- ball game draws the •men back to the beach., Goal posts are oil drums, and rules are feW. The early darkness eventually •sends everyone home, the white man to his turkey and the Eskimo to a community feast followed by an evening of dancing—Eski- mo style. Of course, Christmas in the north ' doesn't only •mean dog team races. ,On Christmas Eve there is a carol' service for the Eskimos; a carol service and a Communion service for the white ponulation. Then on Christmas ° morning 'Commun- ion is held for the Eskimos. As well as being a fun -loving per- son, the Eskimo is also very devout and 'expresses his gratis tude to God for the Christ Child along with the rest of the Chris- tian world. , If 1966 is as busy and inter- esting a year as 1965, there will be no lack of material from which to draw when we settle down to writing you once again. 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