The Huron Expositor, 1975-10-02, Page 3A DAY CARE CENTRE LOOKS LIKE FUN- There were some very young people,
as well as older ones, touring the new day care centre at Vanastra Friday night.
Ai Here Tracy and Cheryl Read, Seaforth and Susan and Renee Lehnen, Vanastra try
out the sand table with Day Care supervisor Karen McEwing. (Staff Photo)
Something to Say
flurut) Expositors bound fOr
Walton area subscr4burs made
round about trip last week. As a
result subscribers got their
papers on Friday, instead of the
usual Thursday morning. •
When Walton postmaster
Stewart Humphries called the
Expositor to say the papers had
not arrived with Thursday
morning's mail, our office asked
the Stratford post office to trace
the missing papers.
Stratford called us back to say
that the driver of the Walton mail
truck had not dropped the
Expositors off at Walton and
didn't notice his mistake until he
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When the tractor with which be
was working on Thursday
overturned, Ken Nigh was pinned
under the machine for 20 minutes
before being released.
Assisting with the-corn harvcOt
on the form of Don Grier, 134.7,
Seaforth, M Nigh wan PaCkill$
corn silage in a pile when the
accident occurred. He was freed
with the help of a neighbor Ed.
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got to Bornholm, life WO& the
Walton bound Expositors hack to
Stratford with Mm when his run
was finished.
Stratford then sent the Wlton
papers back this way Thursday
afternoon, in Its of time for them
to be included in Friday
morning's mail route.
Anyone who goes through the
subscription files of the Huron
Expositor gets intrigued by the
addresses of some of ou r far
away subscribers. Nancy
Andrews, who worked here this
summer as a student reporter, got
a bee in her bonnet when she
learned that every week there are
Expositors going out to people in
England, the West Indies, the
Canadian North West Territories
and to reillers on both coasts in
Canada and the U.S.A.
Why do they read the
Expositor, . what's their
connection with Seaforth, what
news in the paper interests them
• most at long distance? We talked
about these questions and more
and decided that the . subject
would make a good story.
Nancy, who wasn't familiar
with'the names, picked out 15.20
far away subscribers at random.
We wrote then) all the same
letter. conducting a kind of long
distance interview and we got
9 some interesting replies.
Four subscribers wrote detailed
replies. It was awfully nice of
them.
In the early .part of this century
it was the custom among some
local readers to come into the
Expositor office to look Over the
subscription records in order to
get some names and addresses of
possible hosts before making a
trip west. Our far away
subscribers might have suspected
we were setting them up for a
mass visitation. Maybe that's
why the others didn't write.!
The farthest .away reader.
who wrote us was Nancy Nott of
Honolulu, Hawaii. Miss Nott, -a
SDHS grad who grew up on a
farm at R.R.4, Seaforth says she
• enjoys reading about both the
changes and the things that seem
similar to the way they were when
she lived in the area in the 1950's.
Because she's interested in •
local history, she says she liked
the stories on the, Van Egmond
house renovation, tlicEgmondville
Belle Campbell's stories and our
Centennial editions.
"Although I appreciate the
op variety of culture activities that a
city of 700,000 offers and love the '
beach ten minutes away with year
round .temperatures in the 70's, 1
feel fortunate to have grown up in
a small farthing community of
Southwestern Ontario where
people still have a closeness to a
rich land and a sense of family
which has disappeared for most
residents of large urban centres,
Miss Nott writes.
Her sentence says a lot, and we
expect that many of those who
live in big cities but still read the
Expositor as a way of keeping in
touch with their roots would
agree.
Miss Nott says she likes to
compare food prices in, Expositor
ads with those in the Honolulu
paper and includes a couple of
Hawaii grocery store ads with her
letter. In an August paper
chicken is advertised at 69c lb.,
rib roast at$2.29 lb. and large
eggs at 59c a dozen. Beer is
featured in grocery ads at $3.39
per 12 pack. Make your own
comparisons. •
"Thank you for putting me on
the ck of remeffibering," ends,
a log letter from Warrena
• Mottingham. who lives in Delta
B.C. with her husband John. Mr.
and Mrs. Nottingham lived in
Hullett for four years, 1940-44,
when John ran the farm for his
aunt, Mrs. Benjamin
"Farming at Kinburn
(Constance) was a big struggle
during those war years, but
somehow we made a go of it. Or
good neighbours and friends
helped make it a good life, and we
still keep in touch with them and
are happy that they look us up
when they come out to the west
coast."
The Nottinghams went back to
their native B.C. because of
John's health and they now farm
there, about three miles from
Ladner and 15 miles south of
Vancouver. Mrs. Nottingham
says their sons are gradually
taking over some of the farm work
on the 240 acres they own and
additional rented land.
John Nottingham helped
establish an 80 unit Senior
Citizens Apartment in Ladner and
is, an active volunteer with their
church and the local Lions Club,
she reports.
The Expositor, she says, mirrors
"community activities that seem
like our own." But, with a
difference, the Ladner area has
grown from 1,000 to 66,000 in
population since the 1930's. As a
result of this boom Mrs. Notting-
ham says "You might not believe
it but we recognize more names in
the Expositor' than we do in our
local paper, the Delta Optimist."
After 35 Years!
A rural area so close to
Vancouver must be facing
pressures that we've escaped.
"Taxes, especially for schools,
are high, and we wonder how
'long farming will be economically
possible in our area, in spite of
the fact that there is no more
productive land in the whole of
Canada- and the climate is
wonderful too," Mrs. Nottingham
says.
' Mrs. Nottingham enjoyed read-
ing about the big snow storm of
1972 when students were storm
stayed in the schools. "That even
made the TV news out here. We
thought the snowmobile people
were real heros."
She mentions a few good
friends in this area, Lorne and
Viola Lawson, George and Grace
Addison, Clarence and Marg-
uerite Walden and Frank and
Mary Riley. "There are many
more, and we love them all, and
are priviledged to have lived
among them when we were all
young together."
A fascinating glimpse into the
life of a parish priest in St. Lucia,
West Indies comes from the letter
we received from Rev. Thomas
McQuaid, of the Scarborough
Forein Missions, who grew up in
St. Columban.
Father McQuaid, who left the
area in 1933 when he finished his
senior matriculation at SCT after
teaching for several years, says
he reads the Expositor for
recreation.
The priest spent six years in
China and remembers that after
the second World War was over
someone sent several Expositors
to his mission southwest of
Shanghai "for two years and a
half no mail had come through to
us and the Expositor looked
mighty good." He says he
enjoyed reading about the
winning ways of the St. Columban
soccer ,team, "I know the
parents or grandparents of most.
of the boys on that team."
St. Lucia is now getting a fair
number of tourists from Canada,
Father McQuaid writes.
Hewanorra Airport, newly built
on the south part of the island,
was a Canadian gift to the island.
Wardair and Quebec Air charter
flights- land there. England is
spending millions building a road
across the island, straightening
out the hills4nd curves that now
make the 42 mile drive take at
least an hour and a half, he says.
Father McQuaid says his life is
that of a parish priest much as
anywhere although the
congregation is from black of
many shades to white - a mixture
of the Carib Indian, African slave
and people from India proper who
keep much, to themselves. St.
Lucians are a lovely people."
"There's no place like home'
and when you get far away it is
good to glance over a paper and
see names of old acquaintances,"
Father McQuaid writes.
A fourth letter comes from Joan
and Harold Free -in - Escondido,
California, who left Seafortth 16
years ago. Mr's. Free says the
Expositor is like a letter from
home that they read from cover to
cover. "Our hearts remain and
.we:re still very loyal to home and
our many friends."
Mrs. Free says she and her
husband and daughter iiianne
moved to California in 1959
because of the weather there.
Escondido is two hours from Los
Angelos and 30 minutes from the
mountains. Flowers and fruit
trees of all kinds grow profusely,
she reports.
"We are interested in all the
news, especially our lady mayor
whom I well remember and think
she is doing,) a great job for
Seaforth", Ms. Free writes.
Like others who wrote, Mrs.
Free confirmed that mail delivery
of the Expositor is not very good.
"We go weeks and, no paper, then
two or three come at once and
some weeks are missed.",
The Frees are keeping up their
connection with Canada. 4k couple
of days after she wrote Mr. and
Mrs. Free were going to Northern
B.C. for six weeks vacation,
where Harold enjoys fishing.
Any persons wishing to get
involved with the Fund Raising
Committee for the Arena, are
invited to a meeting Thursday,
October 2 - 8 P.M. at the Lower
Library.
* * * * * *
The regular meeting of the
evening unit of Exeter United
Church U.C.W. will be held
October 6, at 8:15 p.m. The guest
speaker will be Alison Jackson
who is the Mental Retardation
Co-ordinator of the Ministry of
Community and Social Services.
She will explain the need and
function of the house recently
purchased by Exeter United
Church for a home for mentally
retarded adults. Anyone in the
surrounding area interested in
this project is urged to attend.
* * * * * *
An invitation is extended to
anyone to attend the regular
meeting of the Horticultural
Society - in the town hall, October
8, at 8 P.M. The planting and.
growing of spri - ing bulbs
will be demonstrated.
* * * * *
You're invit ed to an
evening on antique glass by Mr.
John Cook, Ingersoll at Seaforth
Public School, October 21, 8 p.m.
Sponsored by the Hospital
Auxiliary . Lunch served, tickets
$1.
** * **
A meeting is being held on
Thursday,. October 9 at 8 p.m. at
the Lower Library for all those •
people interested in forming a St.
John Ambulance Section in
Seaforth. People are needed to
serve both on a brigade and to
work on an administrative level.
This meeting will be- informative
in nature and all are welcome.
*****
Don't forget the used sports
equipment auction at the arena,
Saturday afternoon. Proceeds to
finance arena renovations.
by Susan White
Far away readers write
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